Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:57:15 -0700, James Vahn wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
>> Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems,
>> and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of
>> their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'.
>
> Have you tried "debsums -s" ? It is unfortunate that not all packages
> contain the required md5sums, but still, debsums is a very useful tool
> and will ease your worries considerably. It is able to generate md5sums
> if the debs are available - simple instructions how to do this are in the
> manpage.
# locate debsums
d400:/home/udippel# apt-get install debsums
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debsums
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 21.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 65.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://mirror.averse.net sarge/main debsums 2.0.16 [21.0kB]
Fetched 21.0kB in 1s (12.4kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package debsums.
(Reading database ... 152129 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking debsums (from .../debsums_2.0.16_all.deb) ...
Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 156, in ?
exit_status = not main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 146, in main
force, rx, quiet):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 83, in compile_dir
if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 83, in compile_dir
if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 83, in compile_dir
if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 68, in compile_dir
except py_compile.PyCompileError,err:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError'
dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils:
debconf-utils depends on debconf (>= 1.3.20); however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper:
debhelper depends on debconf-utils (>= 1.1.1); however:
Package debconf-utils is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing debhelper (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alien:
alien depends on debhelper (>= 3); however:
Package debhelper is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing alien (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debsums:
debsums depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing debsums (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
debconf-utils
debhelper
alien
debsums
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
As long as debconf fails and cannot be reinstalled, I'm afraid, there
won't be any solution (had started another thread, but now I think it is
the same problem).
Is there really no solution but re-install ??
Uwe
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