[lcd4linux] Probelms with de-installation

[Steve-Kai V. <st...@vy...>]

Hi everybody.

I fond a major Problem when you try to deinstall lcd4linux on an debian 
system.

What happened: I have one Desktop and one Server running. The Server is build 
in my desk so it is not so easy to access the Connectors at the back-side.

For testing prupose I installed my lcd on my desktop and played with  it, 
untill it works fine.

No I installed the lcd on my server, using the configuration from my desktop. 
Because this works fine i tried to deinstall it on my desktop and here comes 
the troble

apt oder dpkg whatever you do says that there was an error in the pre-removal 
script and therefor it don't do anything.

The Problem was, that befor uninstall the system sends an stop signal to the 
system, that whout be no problem, whe I would not have reboot the system 
meanwhile....

The reason is, that because there was nothing connected to the paraport devpp 
was not loaded and /dev/paraportx does not exist anymore.

and here comes the bug. lcd4linux doesn't recognise this and says that the 
driver ist not responding and sends back exit1

so the only posibility was to reconnect the lcd, modprobe ppdev and than 
(reconise that lcd4linux still was not running) uninstall it.

I don't really know if this is an program from debian or from lcd4linux but I 
thought that it should be mentioned :-)

C ya

Steve