dpkg problem (rather serious)
Hi there,
Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when
somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when
running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the
database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file...
The initial problem was that there was a lot of (non-ascii) garbage at
the end of the file... I backed it up and removed the binary garbage,
and now I get the following message (this time I was trying to remove at
in ordre to have the database OK and then reinstall it):
----BEGIN INCLUDED MSG-----
ROOT:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -r --no-act at
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing at (--remove):
files list file for package `at' is truncated
Errors were encountered while processing:
at
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
-----END INCLUDED MSG-----
Now, how can I arrange things in order to have dpkg running fine again?
I looked in the dpkg help files and couldn't find any useful info about
it (I hoped to find some ¨--force-install¨ or something)...
Alternatively... could someone out there send me (in pvt, of course) a
copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file?
My version of at is 3.1.8-4
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Guilherme Zahn
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