On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
Uninstalling inkscape... * trace:uninstallPackage():called with inkscape
- trace:resolveName():resolving inkscape
- trace:resolveName():no reference or dead symlink trail in user db
package not found. {bryce@...347...} ~ (59):
It looks like my 'user db' is borked up? Is there a way to rebuild it, or to blow it away entirely and start over?
Rebuild it, no. Blow it away: rm -rf ~/.packages
Hmm, it appears there is no ~/.packages file or directory...
I get the same effect when there is no ~/.packages present. I created a dir by that name and reran everything, but no change.
There is a .autopackage-gtk file in the root user's home dir, that contains the text 'silent=true'. Removing it and repeating the install/uninstall does not seem to change the behavior.
There's also an autopackage.log file in /home/bryce, but I assume that's just normal output.
The confusing thing of course is that you ran it as root, so I'm not sure why it is looking in the user db. Your root user IS uid 0 right?
Yup:
mercury:/home/bryce # grep root /etc/passwd root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
Bryce