Bug#594350: caused by absence of e2fs progs

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:38:38PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> 
> Ran into same problems, and was bracing myself to buy a new HDD; till
> I figured that this might be a software problem.
> 
> Finaly identifyed that e2fsprogs was uninstalled accidently.

e2fsprogs is marked essential and therefore must never be removed
and will never be automatically removed.

> Reporting this here, since this was what google turned up. Hoping that
> next time somebody runs into similar problem and turns to google for
> help, (s)he will find this.

I hope not, because this bug doesn't seem to have anything to do
with e2fsprogs.

> The system is (almost) upto date, running experimental.
> 
> Currently running 2.6.39-1 (note the "almost" above)
> e2fsprogs is now 1.41.14-1
> 
> Obviously, some dependency problem 

No it isn't.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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