[SOLVED] pacman -Rs lxdm - error: command failed to execute correctly

pskept · 2011-12-20 02:00:33

I received an error message when removing lxdm from my system. I am not sure if this is something I should be concerned with or not. Here is pacman's output:

[root@junta pskept]# pacman -Rs lxdm
checking dependencies...

Remove (2): lxdm-0.4.1-7  consolekit-0.4.5-1

Total Removed Size:   1.41 MB

Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] 
(1/2) removing lxdm                                          [################################] 100%
error: command failed to execute correctly
(2/2) removing consolekit                                    [################################] 100%
[root@junta pskept]#

Last edited by pskept (2011-12-20 16:13:30)

karol · 2011-12-20 09:21:57

Why are you running pacman as root?

Allan · 2011-12-20 11:13:33

karol wrote:

Why are you running pacman as root?

Seriously.... ?

karol · 2011-12-20 11:15:19

Allan wrote:

karol wrote:
Why are you running pacman as root?
Seriously.... ?

Hmmmm, you're right, that wasn't even funny.

Sorry.

pskept · 2011-12-20 13:51:43

i'm running it as root because i don't care to use sudo. its simple enough to log in as root when i need to. i don't see how that could be relevant to the issue i had.

.:B:. · 2011-12-20 14:30:08

t's probably a post-remove script breaking. Might have to do with your $PATH value as root.

pskept · 2011-12-20 14:39:16

.:B:. wrote:

t's probably a post-remove script breaking. Might have to do with your $PATH value as root.

i have not altered root's $PATH value in any manual way. i cannot report the value of $PATH until this evening.

is this something that i need to be concerned with? is there intervention required on my part?

lolilolicon · 2011-12-20 15:22:14

"error: command failed to execute correctly" is a message from pacman due to the post_remove hook's not returning 0.
Check out the INSTALL script for lxdm here: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … kages/lxdm

Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-12-20 15:23:05)

pskept · 2011-12-20 15:47:34

lolilolicon wrote:

"error: command failed to execute correctly" is a message from pacman due to the post_remove hook's not returning 0.
Check out the INSTALL script for lxdm here: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … kages/lxdm

thanks. this clears things up for me.

should i now mark this thread [SOLVED]?

lolilolicon · 2011-12-20 16:11:12

pskept wrote:

should i now mark this thread [SOLVED]?

Sure, as you will.

.:B:. · 2011-12-20 17:18:00

pskept wrote:

.:B:. wrote:
t's probably a post-remove script breaking. Might have to do with your $PATH value as root.
i have not altered root's $PATH value in any manual way. i cannot report the value of $PATH until this evening.

You probably did not indeed, but using su instead of su - will not give you a full root environment and hence not the full root $PATH (/sbin etc.).

wonder · 2011-12-20 17:19:27

the commands are fine but if you use an if block rather than logically statements, it will make pacman happy

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[SOLVED] pacman -Rs lxdm - error: command failed to execute correctly

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