Re: dpkg-database damaged.

[Hartmut Figge <hfigge@knuut.de>]

Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> After trying to use dosemu, my computer stalled and I had to press the
> reset button en the end. After rebooting, I wanted to remove dosemu and
> reinstall it and to my amazement dpkg reported that it was not installed.
> When I ran dselect, it showed about a quarter of the installed packages.
> 
> Is there a way to correct this?

seems, that your /var/lib/dpkg/status was corrupted.

i recommend that you backup your current .../status and use one of the
formerly saved ones, beginning with status-old, if that is corrupt also then
proceed with status.yesterday.0 and so on backwards in time.

-- 
hafi