Re: Borked update
Martin J. Hillyer wrote:
That turned out to be a great hint! I used dselect to install
nautilus, it installed, upgraded nautilus-media and all the other
packages that were pending and left me with a package system that has
no broken installs (dpkg -C now comes up with nothing). Both debconf
and perl seem to be OK. I used dselect because the previous problems
were causing aptitude to lose its database and hang, meaning I had to
kill it from another console.
Excellent.
One thing I did see - when I rebooted my machine (it's dual-boot and
I needed to print some photos on a USB dye-sub printer), fsck told me
that my /usr partition had duplicate/bad inodes and to run fsck
manually. When I did, answering 'y' to all questions, there are in
/usr/lost+found 29 files with names like #128268. These appear to be
perl scripts (I don't know perl). But I've not noticed any ill
effects from this, and the output of dpkg -l perl* is exactly as
before. I assume these files are copies of the duplicate inodes and
the originals are still in place?
No idea, I'm afraid. I know nothing about perl myself, I'm just starting
with bash scripts.
I'm planning to try and purge more gnome tomorrow - I need to get
some sleep after last night's struggles :-). I'll keep you informed
as to progress (or regress) - offline, I guess.
Online or off, fine by me. At the end, I'll write up a precis and post
it for anybody else that wants to wander down the same path. I haven't
been able to find a reference to it anywhere. I must be missing
something, plenty of people must have wanted to trim down gnome before this.
Regards,
David.
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