by Anders Hedbo » Thu, 03 Sep 1998 04:00:00
I just deleted the /var/lib/dpkg/status - file, which apparently
was not the thing to do! :-(
Now when I run 'dselect' it reports that I don't have any
packages installed.
Can it be done? or do I have to reinstall from scratch to
get the database up to date?
Any help welcome. :-)
/Anders H.
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by Michael Mustu » Fri, 04 Sep 1998 04:00:00
> I just deleted the /var/lib/dpkg/status - file, which apparently
> was not the thing to do! :-(
> Now when I run 'dselect' it reports that I don't have any
> packages installed.
> Can it be done? or do I have to reinstall from scratch to
> get the database up to date?
> Any help welcome. :-)
> /Anders H.
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by Anders Hedbor » Tue, 08 Sep 1998 04:00:00
> > -Hi all!
> > I just deleted the /var/lib/dpkg/status - file, which apparently
> > was not the thing to do! :-(
> Perhaps there exist
> /var/lib/dpkg/status.old?
> Copy from status.old to status?
> (Not tested!)
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hi all,
today I started dselect and got some segfaults; after some snooping I
found that /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available were
corrupted! 90% of the errors were "J"s instead of "\n"s and "`" instead
of " "s; anyone seen something like this? I'm now telnet'ing from home so
I can't go into maintenance mode to do some e2fsck'ing but I don't think
it has to do with disk errors: the pattern s/\n/J/ and s/ /`/ leads me
to think that probably dpkg and/or dselect are the ones to blame..
any help welcome!
beers,
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