On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:51:44AM -0500, Jeff Self said > I tried building a kernel 2.6.0 last week using make-kpkg. When I run > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb I get the following > message: > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kernel-image-2.6.0' > missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. > 121265 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.6.0 10.00.Custom (using > kernel-image-2.6.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.6.0 ... > Segmentation fault That's Highly Bad. Does "dmesg" show a kernel oops at about this time? Does "debsums" show that dpkg has not been corrupted? Does installing that .deb on another machine work (just installing, no need to run it). > Ever since then, I can't run apt-get upgrade. I get the following > message: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: The package kernel-image-2.6.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't > find an archive for it. Sure, because apt doesn't know about random files on your disk, only actual apt repositories. > I have tried everything. The kernel-image doesn't even show up in > /var/lib/dpkg/info. Yeah, that's what dpkg was complaining about. > I have tried reinstalling Reinstalling the .deb or your entire system? > , rebuilding the kernel. > Nothing seems to help. Is there any way to erase the kernel-image from > dpkg's "memory"? Can you remove it? "dpkg -r kernel-image-2.6.0". > What file can I edit to do this? I thought that > /var/lib/dpkg/info was the key, but apparently its not. /var/lib/dpkg/info holds things like the maintainer scripts (that run before/after install/removal), and the file list (which is missing). /var/lib/dpkg/status holds the data about which packages are actually installed. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: event security Rumsfield rs9512c ARPA passwd Pine Gap
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