Removing a Broken Package (courier-authdaemon)

[Soo-Hyun Choi]

Hi,

I am getting the following error message when I force to remove a
broken package (courier-authdaemon).


soohyunc at quokka:/var/cache/apt/archives $ sudo dpkg -r
--force-remove-reinstreq courier-authdaemon
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database ... 124565 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing courier-authdaemon ...
 * Stopping Courier authdaemon...
         exec: 31: /usr/sbin/courierlogger: not found
                                                                         [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing courier-authdaemon (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting Courier authdaemon...
         exec: 31: /usr/sbin/courierlogger: not found
                                                                         [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 courier-authdaemon
soohyunc at quokka:/var/cache/apt/archives $




It basically complains that it cannot fine /usr/bin/courierlogger, but
I don't know how to remove this broken package. Would you please give
me a clue how I can remove this package? Because of this reason, I
cannot do "apt-get dist-upgrade" and I cannot install any other
packages.

Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,