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Re: broken dependencies?



On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Nathan Hurst wrote:
> Chiton:~# dpkg --listfiles xutils | grep X11R6/bin/rstart
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `xutils' missing,
> assuming package has no files currently installed.
> 
> The machine is uptodate wrt apt-get update.

This means your box is in deep trouble.  This really doesn't have anything
to do with with the XFree86 packages.  Something extremely wayward stomped
around in /var/lib/dpkg/info, or you have filesystem corruption.

-- 
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Debian GNU/Linux                |    complicated way only to be able to have
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