Re: severely broken dpkg (among other things)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:50:51AM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> > $ sudo strace dpkg -i <package>
> >
>
> This produced lots of interesting results. The relevant ENOENTS are
> [...]
> link("/var/lib/dpkg/status", "/var/lib/dpkg/status-old") = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> link("/var/lib/dpkg/available", "/var/lib/dpkg/available-old") = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
So you've lost both /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available,
by the looks of things. The available file can easily be recreated by
apt or dselect or similar, but losing your status file is pretty bad
news. Do you have a backup of it?
Julian
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