Win4Lin + Karmic = broken

[Dan Falconer]

I'm trying to remove Win4Lin on my Kubuntu 9.10 laptop (was testing it for use with a different desktop that "required" a Windows app), but I get a terrible error.  I've messed around with dpkg a lot, but to no avail...  here's the output (I know I'm probably giving bad arguments to dpkg):::

danf@skittles:~$ sudo dpkg -P --force-depends --force-remove-reinstreq win4linpro          
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 ... 184295 files and directories currently installed.)                   
Removing win4linpro ...                                                                    
- Removing Win4Lin Pro services                                                            
insserv: warning: script 'S01linux-restricted-modules-common' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K20acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides                  
insserv: warning: script 'S10powernowd.early' missing LSB tags and overrides               
insserv: warning: script 'powernowd.early' missing LSB tags and overrides                  
insserv: warning: script 'rpc_pipefs' missing LSB tags and overrides                       
insserv: warning: script 'ufw' missing LSB tags and overrides                              
insserv: warning: script 'udevmonitor' missing LSB tags and overrides                      
insserv: warning: script 'atd' missing LSB tags and overrides                              
insserv: warning: script 'hwclock' missing LSB tags and overrides                          
insserv: warning: script 'rsyslog-kmsg' missing LSB tags and overrides                     
insserv: warning: script 'module-init-tools' missing LSB tags and overrides                
insserv: warning: script 'acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides                     
insserv: warning: script 'usplash' missing LSB tags and overrides                          
insserv: script vmware-autostart: service VMware already provided!                         
insserv: warning: script 'linux-restricted-modules-common' missing LSB tags and overrides  
insserv: warning: script 'dbus' missing LSB tags and overrides                             
insserv: warning: script 'udevtrigger' missing LSB tags and overrides                      
insserv: script umount__networkShares.sh: service umountfs already provided!               
insserv: warning: script 'idmapd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'procps' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'cron' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script vmware-mgmt: service VMware already provided!
insserv: warning: script 'kdm' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'dmesg' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'rsyslog' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'sreadahead' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'portmap' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'anacron' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'hwclock-save' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'hal' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'network-manager' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: script vmware-core: service VMware already provided!
insserv: warning: script 'apport' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'udev' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'acpid' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'avahi-daemon' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'gssd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'udev-finish' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'statd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service rsyslog and hwclock if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service hwclock at depth 4
insserv:  loop involving service sysklogd at depth 3
insserv: There is a loop between service hwclock and sysklogd if started
insserv:  loop involving service sysklogd at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service hwclock at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service rsyslog at depth 1
insserv:  loop involving service postgresql at depth 5
insserv:  loop involving service rsyslog at depth 5
insserv: exiting without changing boot order!
/sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1
dpkg: error processing win4linpro (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 win4linpro
danf@skittles:~$

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Best Regards,


Dan Falconer
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[Dan Falconer]

Dave had this to say (in another thread):

No problem. i had a similar problem with a broken package and had to
work hard to solve it. I think this was what finally solved the problem

dpkg --purge --force-all package_name

/good luck with your issue.

Sadly, I got the same errors running "dpkg --purge --force-all win4linpro" (as root).  I'm struggling to resolve the problem with insserv, specifically with the loop errors.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, preferably before I pull out the rest of my hair.  ;)

[Dave McCarty]

This was the problem I was trying to solve (went back to the forum I was
using for help)
Install failed and I get the following message when I try to open
package manger:
E: The package eeestorage needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

I have tried running dpkg --configure -a, apt-get -f, sudo rm
-f /var/lib/apt/lists/*,

Still unable to access package manager.

This was the fix that worked (it looks similar to one you tried)

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq xxx

THe following note was offered by gringo
ExtrEmE User
From: Germany
"About the command :

debianadmin.com wrote:
reinst-required
A package marked reinst-required is broken and requires
reinstallation. These packages cannot be removed,
unless forced with option --force-remove-reinstreq.

>From here : http://www.debianadmin.com/manpages/dpkgmanpage.htm"

Hope there may be some clue hidden in this.

Dave

[Dan Falconer]

Dave,

Thank you for your input!  I spent many hours last night working on this problem, and it seems that one of the things I did must have fixed it (I did the standard "sudo apt-get remove win4linpro" that I originally tried, but this time it worked).

Basically, I went through the errors (not warnings) from that first message and worked to remove them.  I removed the symlink copies of vmware (vmware-autostart, vmware-mgmt, and vmware-core), though I'm not sure if that borked VMware or not.  I also removed my old "special" script for unmounting network-mounted shares (umount__networkShares.sh) from back in the day of 8.04).

The errors with "hwclock" were a bit more interesting to fix.  In /etc/init.d/, there was a file called "hwclock" that was a symlink to "/lib/init/upstart-job".  I removed the symlink and replaced it with an actual file, with these contents:

#! /bin/sh -e

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hwclock
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop:      0 6
# Short-Description: hwclock... (hope this works)
# Description:       Does stuff for the hwclock... yeah.  Hope it works.
### END INIT INFO

PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"
. /lib/init/upstart-job

That final part referencing "upstart-job" does essentially the same thing as the symlink, but this way I can add custom LSB tags... I really had to fudge on the LSB tags (FYI: those are the things between "BEGIN INIT INFO" and "END INIT INFO" comments): to figure it out, I basically did a locate for hwclock, and found that it had these entries:::

/etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh
/etc/rc6.d/K25hwclock.sh

 So I used an educated guess, based on my knowledge of the "/etc/rc*.d/" setup (sysv?) startup scripts and added the entries for "Default-Stop" in the afore-mentioned LSB tags.  I think that was the final bit that fixed the problem. 

I still get all kinds of warnings when I do anything that attempts to affect the boot order (there are still errors about loops that prevent some things from getting installed/removed).  Any help with **automatically** generating / updating scripts with LSB tags would be very much appreciated.  I don't really like the idea of reinstalling (I'm assuming that would fix it, as the scripts seem to have gone through a conversion process for the "upstart" system).