Hi,
I was upgrading mozilla on my Debian unstable box when the power went
and my box crashed. On rebooting, it turns out my filesystem was
messed by and required manual fsck'ing. Now whenever I try to
install/upgrade anything, my dpkg is complaining about mozilla and
doesn't let me do anything.
Below is a sample of the errors that it reports (this one was
generated while trying to reinstall debconf).
I googled for a while looking for solutions. The suggestions I found
invovled rebuilding status and available files in the /var/lib/dpkg/
directory but nothing seems to work. Can anyone give any suggestions
to try, short of reinstalling?
TIA,
sridhar
Error output follows:
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 57, <$__ANONIO__> line 5069.
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 57, <$__ANONIO__> line 5069.
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 51, <$__ANONIO__> chunk
5069.
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/File.pm line 51, <$__ANONIO__> chunk
5069.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <> line 4.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 66, <GEN1> line 6.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 6.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 66, <GEN1> line 6.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 6.
Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, <GEN1> line 6.
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `mozilla-xft'
missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/liblocale-gettext-perl_1.01-17_i386.deb
(--unpack):