On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file > corruption. > > Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing > apt-get dist-upgrade: > > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? > (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.) ^-------------------------------------------------------^ The installation status of all files is kept in /var/lib/dpkg/status. Backups of this file are found in /var/backups. Try restoring the status file from one of the backups. > Unpacking libdb1-compat (from .../libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb (--unpack): > unable to create updated files list file for package libdb1-compat: No such file or directory > Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb) ... > dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support ! > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-10_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Suggestions much appreciated. > > Greetings, > > Lux -- Jerome
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