Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Papadopoulos Alexis wrote:
> This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive
> that this message is in any way related to my problem :
> "ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item
> position == 0"
>
> Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting everything
> except /, well it's / which has the problem (didn't bother to much to
> partition, one / and /home partition, and I do now regret it!). I still
> took the risk to execute fsck on my mounted / partition (i'm starting to
> believe that I have nothing to loose now, except another half a day to get
> everything up (full reinstall) and nothing changed except as I said that
> there seem to be 30 files messy...


I think what I'd try now is to copy those 30 files from a working 
machine (assuming they're the same files (same versions)), or reinstall 
the packages containing those files.

For example, if one of the files is named "libss.so.2.0", do a "dpkg -S 
libss.so.2.0 *", which tells you that you need to reinstall the "libss2" 
package.

You said earlier that you can't install anything. Does that mean you 
can't even do something like "dpkg -i libss2.deb"? If so, I'd do the 
first thing mentioned above; try copying the files from a working system.

--
Kent