How to uninstall Daemontools?

[arelfrost]

Hi,

so I have this simple question... Is it possible? Because everytime I try to do this it gives me some error and leaves it installed.

Is there any way?

thanks,
Stan

[penguin.ch]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

http://www.daemon-help.com/index.html (?)

[arelfrost]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

Hi UnicornRider,

unfortunately it doesn't say how to do it on linux...

[penguin.ch]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html (?)

[SheeEttin]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

What's the error say?

[arelfrost]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

Ok, here´s the output in terminal:

stan@stan-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove daemontools
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 libmikmod2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
 daemontools
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1970kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 116357 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing daemontools ...
Removing svscanboot from /etc/inittab..
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing daemontools (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 daemontools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

And I get the same error when I try to uninstall it with adept or Synaptic...

[SheeEttin]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

That's really weird. You should have an inittab... it's one of those low-level system config files.

I guess you could execute "sudo touch /etc/inittab" to create an empty one. I've put mine here; there should be little to no difference between them. (Just save it somewhere, then find it in Konqueror. Hit F4, then type "sudo mv inittab.txt /etc/inittab".)

As for why it modified your inittab, I don't know. It's not something it should have to touch.

[arelfrost]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

Hi, SheeEttin,

I looked in the /etc and only found inittab{new} and inittab.{new}...

the contents of the first one is:

SV:123456:respawn:/command/svscanboot

that´s it...

I looked at the copy of your one and it´s much more than in mine...

any ideas?

[SheeEttin]

Re: How to uninstall Daemontools?

I'd suggest copying in mine. After that, the uninstallation should continue fine.

[arelfrost]

SOLVED! How to uninstall Daemontools?

Hey, SheeEttin!

It worked! Since I didn´t have the inittab file at all (just some weird inittab{new}) I just copied yours into /etc and that did it, no errors, managed to uninstall it.

Weird thing though... It said it deleted some svs line from it and yours didn´t have it, but mine did. So I deleted inittab{new} too and it makes no difference, I mean everything seems to be working fine.

I guess the installation of Daemontools created this inittab{new} with only this one svs line that it needed but tried to access inittab instead of inittab{new} which it originally created on uninstall...

Thank you for your help, guys!
Cheers,
Stan