Re: dpkg problem

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:55:28 +0000
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:

> /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupt. Can you dig an older version out of
> /var/lib/dpkg/status-old or /var/backups/dpkg.status.*, perhaps? Check
> for differences with the current version before just copying it into
> place, and keep a copy of the corrupt version at least until your system
> is back in order.
> 

Thanks. There was some weird garbage after the version number at the
relevant place in the file, and that seemed to be the only difference with
the older version, so I replaced it and all now seems to be well.

Much appreciated.
- Richard
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/