Re: apt-get, dpkg coruption
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:36:37PM -0600, Jon Cris Wade wrote:
> Well, somehow, my dpkg database, or files or something got totaly
> corupted. When I go to install any package, it says
>
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing tcsh_6.10-0.2_sparc.deb :
> files list file for package 'gdm' contains empty filename
> Errors were Encountered while processing:
> tcsh_6.10-0.2_sparc.deb
> Processing was haltd because there were too many errors.
>
> Is there any way to forceably purge all records of the gdm package out
> of the dpkg database, and then re-install it via apt-get, dpkg, etc...
It looks like /var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm.list is corrupted. Try removing
that file and then running 'apt-get --reinstall install gdm'. Back up
any special system-wide gdm configuration you had first in case this
process reverts back to the Debian defaults.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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