Re: dpkg cache broken after system crash
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:21:47 +0100, Marcio Rosa da Silva
<mrs@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> brain:~ 4 # apt-get install linuxdoc-tools
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libsp1 sp
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libsp1 linuxdoc-tools sp
> 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1894kB of archives. After unpacking 6176kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ...
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libpisock++0'
> missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libsp1_1.3.4-1.2.1-28_i386.deb (--unpack):
> failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `pilot-link': Is a
> directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libsp1_1.3.4-1.2.1-28_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
You could try reinstalling libpisock++0, pilot-link and other packages
for which you get error messages, assuming dpkg is still working. This
should be harmless in any case. You might consider doing a complete
purge before reinstalling.
Perhaps
apt-get remove --purge pilot-link libpisock++0
#ignore package-integrity-related errors you get here
and then
apt-get install pilot-link libpisock++0
# and other packages that got removed above
I'd also take a look at the output of
apt-get -f install
though this is more about dependency checking.
It looks like some Palm-related tools you were using got messed up,
perhaps because they were in use when your system froze. If the above
fails, try reinstalling all your Palm-related tools.
And set up a journalling file system to avoid this happening again.
Faheem.
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