I'm running Debian testing and use popfile to filter emails.

After an upgrade using synaptic something's gone wrong with popfile and it
won't work. I've been trying to remove it to re-install it but get this:

yariknow:/home/mrkeef# dpkg -r popfile
(Reading database ... 264826 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing popfile ...
Stopping popfile: start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 15383: No
such process
No process in pidfile `/var/run/popfile/popfile.pid' found running; none
killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript popfile, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing popfile (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting popfile: popfile.
Errors were encountered while processing:
popfile

Can someone please tell me how to get around this?

Thanks

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Ok Thanks.

that allowed me to re-install, but I still can't run popfile

I'll continue working on it.

Keith


On Fri, 23 May 2008 18:18:07 +1000, Jayakrishnan M
<jay.krishnanm@gmail.com> wrote:



> Hi,
>
> Please check if popfile service is running.
>
> jk@jk:~$ ps -ef | grep popfile
> popfile 11528 1 0 13:41 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/share/popfile/popfile.pl --set config_piddir=/var/run/popfile/
> --set logger_logdir=/var/log/popfile/
> jk 11649 11627 0 13:44 pts/5 00:00:00 grep popfile
> jk@jk:~$
> If a popfile service is not present, then your upgrade has caused
> popfile to crash.
> In that case, you can try removing /var/run/popfile directory and then
> remove popfile package.
> But please verify the side-effects of removing /var/run/popfile. I
> don't know what all will be lost. Make sure there is no useful
> information in that directory.
>
> Regards,
> Jayakrishnan
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Keith Bates <keith@new-life.org.au>
> wrote:
>> I'm running Debian testing and use popfile to filter emails.
>>
>> After an upgrade using synaptic something's gone wrong with popfile and
>> it
>> won't work. I've been trying to remove it to re-install it but get this:
>>
>> yariknow:/home/mrkeef# dpkg -r popfile
>> (Reading database ... 264826 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Removing popfile ...
>> Stopping popfile: start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 15383: No
>> such
>> process
>> No process in pidfile `/var/run/popfile/popfile.pid' found running; none
>> killed.
>> invoke-rc.d: initscript popfile, action "stop" failed.
>> dpkg: error processing popfile (--remove):
>> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>> Starting popfile: popfile.
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> popfile
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how to get around this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> God bless you,
>>
>>
>> Keith Bates
>>
>> www.new-life.org.au
>>
>> If you don't have a reason to live
>>
>> JESUS IS THE ANSWER!
>>
>> Ask him into your life today...
>> He really does make a difference
>>
>>
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>> subject
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>>



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