Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
Colin
Thanks for the pointer about not needing to cc you when I post to the
list.
Since I can scroll all the way to the bottom before I get wierdness, I
tried to copy the file, it appears I got about half of it. I have
/var/lib/dpkg/status-old. What do I do, just rename it? After fsck,
of course?
OK FSCK here we come.
David Teague
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:07:37 +0100
> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
> Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:07:41 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> [By the way, no need to cc me on mailing list posts.]
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:09:31PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That sounds like a good idea to me. I wouldn't actually remove
> /var/lib/dpkg/status until you've run fsck, but it may turn out to be
> dead. In that case, there should be a recent backup in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status-old and older backups in
> /var/backups/dpkg.status.*, some of which may turn out to be usable.
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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