Awful problem with dpkg (once again)
Hi:
Since I didn't receive any answer the first time I posted, I'm sending
this again. Hope this time someone can help me, for I'm stuck with
the problem and the only solution I see is reinstalling everything
from the scratch (sometime I thought I would never had to do with
Debian).
Thanks a lot,
M. S.
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Hi:
Trying to upgrade the machine of a colegue, I found and awful problem
with dpkg I haven't managed to deal with. Apparently, the package
database got corrupted somehow, preventing me from upgrading any
package. For example, if I try to upgrade libc5 with
dpkg -i libc5_5.4.23-6.deb
I get
(Reading database ... 15789 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc5 5.4.20-1 (using libc5_5.4.23-6.deb) ...
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/07' for
reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing libc5_5.4.23-6.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc5_5.4.23-6.deb
Even more, upgrading dpkg doesn't work at all:
(Reading database ... 15789 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.0.7 (using dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb) ...
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/07' for
reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb
Any clues on what may be happening?
Regards,
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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