Re: Debian installer, rescue mode?

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 13:21 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> > I can now boot the image, but upgrading e.g.
> > gnumach fails due to the update-grub problems. And dpkg-reconfigure -a
> > also fails. Is there a way to configure the packages that will configure
> > successfully. Where is that list stored?
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> just make the package 
> 
> Status: install ok installed
> 
> and it'll believe it's configured.

I edited the /var/lib/dpkg/status file for grub* and gnumach* but even
if the status line reads:
Package: gnumach-image-1.3.99-486-dbg
Status: hold ok installed
the status is reported as half-configured??
hF  gnumach-image-1.3.99-486-dbg
2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20120610-1

Is some backup version used? Looks like old dpkg.status.?{,.gz} files
are stored at: /usr/backups.

Had the same problem before with gnumach-image-1.3.99-486, now no longer
present. The other package status changes seemed to work.