Can't seem to remove Varnish

[jacatone]

Read an article in Linux Magazine about Varnish and how great it was. Installed it using Konsole but kept getting install errors. Whenever I used Konsole, it kept saying it's having problems installing Varnish. Tried removing it in Konsole, now it says it's having problems removing Varnish. How do I remove this thing for good?

[Teunis]

Re: Can't seem to remove Varnish

Without me knowing what Varnish is I can suggest you give us the exact error messages you get.
That'll make it a lot easier to come up with a solution.

[jacatone]

Re: Can't seem to remove Varnish

Here it is. I was trying to use Konsole to install something else and this came up instead.

The following partially installed packages will be configured:
varnish
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up varnish (1.0.3-2) ...
Starting HTTPd accelerator: /usr/bin/ld: crti.o: No such file:
No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
pclose=256
Internal error: GCC returned 0x0100
invoke-rc.d: initscript varnish, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing varnish (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit statu
s 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
varnish
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
root@eMax:/home/jacatone#

[Teunis]

Re: Can't seem to remove Varnish

Have you tried to remove the package?

$ sudo apt-get remove varnish

It's never a bad idea to start with some cleaning up:

$ sudo apt-get autoclean

And a check for unsatisfied dependencies of installed packages:

$ sudo apt-get check

In case of error messages please report them here.

[jacatone]

Re: Can't seem to remove Varnish

I tried that and using a forced remove. Got the follow error though:

root@eMax:/home/jacatone# apt-get -f remove varnish
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
varnish
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 659kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 94962 files and directories currently in
stalled.)
Removing varnish ...
Stopping HTTPd accelerator: invoke-rc.d: initscript varnish, a
ction "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing varnish (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting HTTPd accelerator: /usr/bin/ld: crti.o: No such file:
No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
pclose=256
Internal error: GCC returned 0x0100
invoke-rc.d: initscript varnish, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit statu s 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
varnish
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@eMax:/home/jacatone#

[Teunis]

Re: Can't seem to remove Varnish

I noticed a few thing, read all before you decide what action to take first.

At the bottom of your post there is a reference to dpkg, that's the real package manager, apt-get is a front end for it.

A powerful command to clear errors with dpkg is:

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

If this does not clear the problem the next one might do the trick:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq varnish

After any of these commands it's a good idea to run the standard:

sudo apt-get update

Something else what I find strange is that your last post shows an attempt by the script to stop varnish from running.
Strange because I'd imagine it is insufficiently installed to be running!

But it doesn't hurt to check:

$ ksysguard

(Or Ctrl+Esc)

In case varnish is in the process table select it and hit Kill.

[jacatone]

Re: Can't seem to remove Varnish

Thanks, I'll give it a try. What I find strange is whenever I try using Konsole for something else, it keeps bring up this Varnish problem. In case your suggestions don't work, is there a way to prevent Konsole from doing this? It doesn't really bother me if Varnish isn't properly installed or removed as long as it doesn't keep reminding me of it presence.