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On ubuntu I am facing an issue:<br>
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While removing package kimchi I get following error:<br>
<blockquote><small>start-stop-daemon: <b>unrecognized option
'--remove-pidfile'</b></small><br>
<small>Try 'start-stop-daemon --help' for more information.</small><br>
<small>Killed</small><br>
<small>invoke-rc.d: initscript kimchi, action "stop" failed.</small><br>
<small>dpkg: error processing package kimchi (--remove):</small><br>
<small> subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error
exit status 137</small><br>
<small>Errors were encountered while processing:</small><br>
<small> kimchi</small><br>
<small>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)</small><br>
<small>W: Operation was interrupted before it could finish</small><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">start-stop-daemon --help
Usage: start-stop-daemon [<option> ...] <command>
Commands:
-S|--start -- <argument> ... start a program and pass <arguments> to it
-K|--stop stop a program
-T|--status get the program status
-H|--help print help information
-V|--version print version
Matching options (at least one is required):
-p|--pidfile <pid-file> pid file to check
-x|--exec <executable> program to start/check if it is running
-n|--name <process-name> process name to check
-u|--user <username|uid> process owner to check
Options:
-g|--group <group|gid> run process as this group
-c|--chuid <name|uid[:group|gid]>
change to this user/group before starting
process
-s|--signal <signal> signal to send (default TERM)
-a|--startas <pathname> program to start (default is <executable>)
-r|--chroot <directory> chroot to <directory> before starting
-d|--chdir <directory> change to <directory> (default is /)
-N|--nicelevel <incr> add incr to the process' nice level
-P|--procsched <policy[:prio]>
use <policy> with <prio> for the kernel
process scheduler (default prio is 0)
-I|--iosched <class[:prio]> use <class> with <prio> to set the IO
scheduler (default prio is 4)
-k|--umask <mask> change the umask to <mask> before starting
-b|--background force the process to detach
-C|--no-close do not close any file descriptor
-m|--make-pidfile create the pidfile before starting
-R|--retry <schedule> check whether processes die, and retry
-t|--test test mode, don't do anything
-o|--oknodo exit status 0 (not 1) if nothing done
-q|--quiet be more quiet
-v|--verbose be more verbose
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Hope that helps.<br>
Thierry<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Thierry Fauck @ linux.vnet.ibm</pre>
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