Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:37, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote:
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.
> From: "Papadopoulos Alexis" <acp@cybermail.net>
> Date: Thu, November 6, 2003 3:33 pm
> To: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
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>
> Actually ls is in /bin/ for me. It doesn't change anything.
> I'm positive now that the problem is due to the fs, some weird messages
> appear in the boot process, that must be it. Now, is there at least (so as
> to begin) any way to get rid of these corrupted files (I cannot remove
> them, since rm responds that there is no such file, and rm -f isn't
> working) ?
> fsck didn't help, though saying that 30 are messy...
fsck says that there are 30 corrupt files?
> Anyone has a clue ?
>
> Thanks again
>
> > Papadopoulos Alexis wrote:
> >> Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that...
> >> I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info
> >> Here are the first lines :
> >> ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory
> >> ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> ls: klipper.list: No such file or directory
> >> ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
> >>
> >> Now I must say that I'm a little bit confused... How can that be ? This is
> >> the origin of the problem but what is IT ?
> >>
> >> Can that be that the files got corrupted or something like that ? Can I do
> >> something to solve this ? Strange though, I'm using ReiserFS, are these
> kind of things supposed to be avoided ? Oh, and if I try to replace for
> instance xfree86-common.list my PC reboots immediatly!
> >
> > Try "/usr/bin/ls -l"; any difference?
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