Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?
I've pulled the flash drive, and ran e2fsck on it, correcting the
errors that it found. I also emptied out a number of corrupt .list
files, as suggested earlier.
This is the error I get now:
# apt-get --reinstall install coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3181kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 21229 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace coreutils 5.97-5.3 (using
.../coreutils_5.97-5.3_arm.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.3_arm.deb (--unpack):
unable to install (supposed) new info file
`/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/md5sums': Is a directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.3_arm.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Eric Higgins <erichiggins@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not too worried about losing anything. It's an embedded device
> which runs off a flash drive, and its only purpose is to act as a file
> server for a mounted USB drive. I've checked the drive and it's fine,
> but its entirely possible the flash drive has been corrupted.
>
> # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/wamerican.postinst
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> # Automatically added by installdeb-wordlist
>
> . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> SCRIPT="/usr/sbin/update-default-wordlist"
>
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ] ; then
> if [ -x "$SCRIPT" ]; then
> $SCRIPT --rebuild
> else
> echo "Error: $SCRIPT not present or executable. Missing dependency on
> dictionaries-common?" >&2
> exit 1
> fi
> fi
> # End automatically added section
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Eric Higgins <erichiggins@gmail.com> was heard to say:
>>> Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:
>>>
>>> It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
>>> filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?
>>
>> It looks like it got replaced by the postinst for wamerican. You
>> could just replace it with an empty file and then reinstall coreutils,
>> but you should be aware that this is probably some sort of filesystem
>> corruption. It's possible that this is the only thing that's wrong
>> and that you won't see any more problems, but I wouldn't count on it.
>> It's probably a good idea to back up any important data just in case
>> the situation gets worse.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity: what happened to the postinst for wamerican?
>> It should be /var/lib/dpkg/info/wamerican.postinst.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
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