Re: Corrupt dpkg database? No kernels found
On Nov 26, 4:20 am, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote:
> I just got an error during the installation because no kernel was
> found. syslog complained about missing dependencies and advised that
> "apt-get -f install" should be run. I entered the target and issues
> that command but apt-get segfaulted. After manually installing a .deb
> with dpkg, apt-get worked fine... this seems like a corrupted dpkg
> databaseto me. Has anyone seen this before? It sounds similar to
> something someone recently mentioned on -mips. I'm on ARM and several
> test installations in the last few days worked fine.
To diagnose this problem further, I downloaded gdb with wget, but
instead of installing it with dpkg, I unpacked it with ar and then
untar'd data.tar.gz to /target. I then chroot'd to /target and ran
apt-get with gdb. Here is a full output:
~ # cd /root
/root # wget
http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdb/gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.deb
Connecting to debian.osuosl.org[64.50.236.52]:80
gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.d 100% |*****************************| 2481 KB
00:00 ETA
/root # ar -x gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.deb
/root # ls
control.tar.gz debian-binary
data.tar.gz gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.deb
/root # cd /target
/target # tar xzvf /root/data.tar.gz
.
./usr
./usr/share
./usr/share/man
./usr/share/man/man1
./usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/gdbserver.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/gdbtui.1.gz
./usr/share/man/man1/arm-linux-gnu-run.1.gz
./usr/share/doc
./usr/share/doc/gdb
./usr/share/doc/gdb/NEWS.gz
./usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.dvi.gz
./usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.ps.gz
./usr/share/doc/gdb/changelog.gz
./usr/share/doc/gdb/README.Debian
./usr/share/doc/gdb/copyright
./usr/share/doc/gdb/README.gz
./usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.tex.gz
./usr/share/doc/gdb/changelog.Debian.gz
./usr/share/menu
./usr/share/menu/gdb
./usr/lib
./usr/bin
./usr/bin/gdbtui
./usr/bin/gdb
./usr/bin/gdbserver
./usr/bin/arm-linux-gnu-run
./usr/bin/gcore
/target # cd
~ # chroot /target
sh-3.1# gdb apt-get
GNU gdb 6.5-debian
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols
found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) run -f install
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get -f install
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4005e62c in pkgDepCache::Update () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.11
(gdb)
Unless anybody can come up with any other ideas or suggestions, my next
step is to recompile apt-get with debugging information.
Gordon
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