[Bug 1058790] Re: package does not uninstall

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 2 June 2013 15:02, ill <1058790 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> apt-get is provided by the official ubuntu repos.
>

It has already been explained why apt is not at fault here and will
not be adapted to handle this kind of breakage.  The problem is in the
package ‘brscan2’ which Ubuntu does not provide.

In comment #4 there are links to several methods you can use to
recover your system.

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Title:
  package does not uninstall

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  when attempting to uninstall a package, apt-get fails to remove it. 
  $ sudo apt-get remove brscan2
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libjack-jackd2-dev libutouch-evemu1 libutouch-geis1 libutouch-frame1 libsndfile1-dev
    kbuild libreadline6-dev module-assistant libutouch-grail1 libgsoap1 libreadline-dev
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    brscan2
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 50 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  (Reading database ... 270358 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing brscan2 ...
  rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/local/Brother/sane/GrayCmData/ALL': No such file or directory
  rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/local/Brother/sane/GrayCmData/AL': No such file or directory
  rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/local/Brother/sane/GrayCmData': No such file or directory
  rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/local/Brother/sane/models2': No such file or directory
  rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/local/Brother/sane': No such file or directory
  rmdir: failed to remove `/usr/local/Brother': No such file or directory
  dpkg: error processing brscan2 (--remove):
   subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   brscan2
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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