Re: System needs repair after fsck
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:59:49 -0400, Marty wrote:
>> It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is
>> screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade
>> anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ?
> Some things I meant to add to my first reply was the in lieu of
> debsums you can unzip all the files and directories of the deb package
> files into a temporary directory using dpkg-deb, and compare them to
> your installed version. This doesn't seem to hard to do in a script.
Done, and it seems okay; no differences.
> I've heard of cases of corruption the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ install and
> deinstall scripts, so you might want to give those special attention.
There are about 2000; I tried my best and don't find differences.
> Finally, if you haven't already, you might give some thought to what is
> corrupting your disk.
Nothing. There were no problems before and there are none when I run fsck
afterwards.
> If there's a hardware problem you could be getting
> ongoing failures and even make the condition worse. You may want to
> clone the disk and work on the copy on another system.
Yes, but I rather clone it when it is back to normal.
Uwe
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