Re: dpkg critical error

[Calber Chainy <chainy@infonegocio.com>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:04:21AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:09:16AM +0200, Calber Chainy wrote:
> > As usual playing with some dangerous stuff i damaged some files.  In
> > this case is critical because it touched dpkg.
> > 
> > Therefore when i try to do anything with apt-get it drops something like
> > this:
> > 
> > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2 No such file or
> > directory)
> 
> You'd better restore /var/lib/dpkg/status. There may be a backup in
> either /var/lib/dpkg/status-old or /var/backups/.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> 

Thanks a lot, it was in /var/lib/dpkg/status-old

You save my day.

Chainy.