#769610 gdm3: purging the package fails because the GDM user is still in use

Package:
gdm3
Source:
gdm3
Description:
GNOME Display Manager
Submitter:
Martin-Éric Racine
Date:
2014-11-14 23:51:07 UTC
Severity:
important
#769610#5
Date:
2014-11-14 23:52:11 UTC
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Removing user `Debian-gdm' ...
Warning: group `Debian-gdm' has no more members.
userdel: user Debian-gdm is currently used by process 2019
/usr/sbin/deluser: `/usr/sbin/userdel Debian-gdm' returned error code 8. Exiting.
Could not remove Debian-gdm user.
/usr/sbin/delgroup: `Debian-gdm' still has `Debian-gdm' as their primary group!
Could not remove Debian-gdm group.

Presumably, the daemon wasn't stopped prior to removal, so the user is still being used and cannot be removed by postrm.