Re: corrupt/lost dpkg files, dpkg broken, aptitude broken, help :(
On 6/7/2013 5:26 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 07 Jun 2013 at 16:30:34 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> [Snip]
>
>> What's the best method for fixing this, getting dpkg running again, and
>> removing lshw, given some of its file have been corrupted/lost? There
>> wouldn't happen to be a single command to rebuild the dpkg subsystem
>> would there?
>
> A missing available file can be rebuilt with
>
> apt-get/aptitude/dselect update
>
> Doing
>
> touch /var/lib/dpkg/available
>
> beforehand might not come amiss.
Tried this but it didn't rebuild the file. However, simply having the
empty available file after touch prevents the aptitude errors when
removing a package. Aptitude also auto-creates available-old, which is
also empty of course.
> There should also be a /var/lib/dpkg/available-old file which you could
> consider copying.
It apparently got whacked as well when the system locked up. I'm
wondering if it will every get repopulated. I also wonder how necessary
it is at this point. I can remove packages without the error now. But
I haven't tried installing any. I'm guessing I'll have a problem when I
do, given the name "available".
--
Stan
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