Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
Colin
David wrote:
> > I ran dpkg -l, dpkg --audit, got a bus error
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'd be rather concerned about that last one. Are you sure you haven't
> got disk corruption or memory problems? An I/O error points to the
> former. Can you 'less /var/lib/dpkg/status' and scroll down to the end
> without errors?
Nope, I get wierd stuff when I try that. I just checked, I get a read
error, and sum fails with an i/o error.
Someone suggested removing it and trying again. I think I'll back up
my data some place else and reboot, then fsck the disk.
What do you think?
David
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:10:03 +0100
> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
> Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:10:13 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:07:59PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> > elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
> > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
> > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > Reading Package Lists... Error!
> > E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
> > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > elentari:~#
> >
>
> I'm fishing here, but you might want to try to strace something that's
> giving this bus error and see where it's breaking.
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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