removing nginx from Feisty

[spoken4]

Just wondering why I can't remove nginx by apt-get. (R51 IBM Laptop)
Same thing happened with Moodle on Dapper,

I stopped the service with cbe@LAP-cbe:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
Stopping nginx: nginx.

then tried to remove it, but I get error exits - see below

cbe@LAP-cbe:~$ sudo apt-get -f remove nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nginx
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 528kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 116441 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nginx ...
Stopping nginx: invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing nginx (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting nginx: nginx.
Errors were encountered while processing:
nginx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Ive done all the update, upgrade options for apt-get but still no luck

[geira]

I had the same problem. Looks like the nginx package is broken. It didn't install properly, it won't uninstall, and whenever you try to install some other program it tries to rerun the postinstall configuration and fails miserably.

What seems most peculiar is that it insists on starting nginx before it can be removed. I hacked this by adding an "exit 0" to the top of /etc/init.d/nginx, then it doesn't complain when using apt-get remove.

Shame, because nginx is a great program, but for the moment I believe it's better to compile from source.

[oliver369]

I had the same problem after trying to install Ruby on Rails on my Ubuntu 7.04 Server. I managed to get nginx off the machine with the following commands:

rm -rf /etc/nginx/
rm -rf /usr/sbin/nginx
rm /usr/share/man/man1/nginx.1.gz
apt-get remove nginx*

This worked fine for me just let me know if it does for you guys!

[sixsixone]

Thanks for that, I had the same problem after foolishly installing it with my rails setup on Feisty. I was getting sick of killing the process and reloading apache!

[hifiguy36]

Thanks for the info, Oliver369, worked for me as well.

I'm going to try XAMPP for developing my Ruby on Rails apps.

[sgudibanda]

I also hacked into intiscript of nginx by adding exit 0. apt-get remove nginx* worked after that.
Thanks Guys.

Sandeep G

[slimjimflim]

hi, i'm having the same problem. i tried all the things you said above, and it's still there. here's what i get.


1.
*@*:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo aptitude remove nginx
2.
Reading package lists... Done
3.
Building dependency tree
4.
Reading state information... Done
5.
Reading extended state information
6.
Initializing package states... Done
7.
Building tag database... Done
8.
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
9.
libfaac0 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
10.
The following packages have been kept back:
11.
konversation tzdata
12.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
13.
nginx
14.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
15.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 528kB will be freed.
16.
Writing extended state information... Done
17.
(Reading database ... 169193 files and directories currently installed.)
18.
Removing nginx ...
19.
Stopping nginx: nginx.
20.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/nginx.prerm: 39: Syntax error: "else" unexpected
21.
dpkg: error processing nginx (--remove):
22.
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
23.
Starting nginx: nginx.
24.
Errors were encountered while processing:
25.
nginx
26.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
27.
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
28.
*@*:/usr/share/cups/model$

[Railsbuntu]

Do you still have issues with nginx? I am currently reviewing http server solutions, and nginx is one of them.