Re: Dpkg problems
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed
> situation:
>
> dpkg -i foo
> Segmentation fault
>
> Dselect: Update
> Okay
> Dselect: Select
> Segmentation fault
>
> dpkg --unpack foo
> Segmentation fault
>
> dpkg --help
> Okay
>
> What can I do? I downloaded the dpkg deb, used ar x, unpacked the tgz and
> copied the appropriate files, but it still segfaults. This might be
> related to the fact that my system crashed this morning with a kernel
> panic.
Trying to install dpkg by hand may have done more harm than good...better to
first verify the checksums of the binaries, to see if they are truly broken.
Did you check whether the contents of /var/lib/dpkg are intact (specifically,
the status file and info/*.list)?
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- mdz
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