/var/lib/dpkg/status missing

["Michael K O'Brien" <mobrien@pixar.com>]

Hola~

The motherboard on my Dell Inspiron 8000 died, and was replaced. After fsck
cleaned up the drive, dpkg was failing:

    % dpkg -l g++\*
    dpkg-query: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for
    reading: No such file or directory

A version of it was in lost+found. I moved the version from lost+found back to
"/var/lib/dpkg/status". dpkg lists packages now. apt-cache update looks like
it works.

I guess I'm a bit nervous of the integrity of the status file. Is there any
way to verify the status file?

MO

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Michael O'Brien                                                         Tools
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