Re: broken dependencies?

[Nathan Hurst <njh@hawthorn.csse.monash.edu.au>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:

> 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.

Ok, I removed the X related packages as best I could, changed the
sources.list and reinstalled the xstuff, and it installed without
complaint.  It's a fix, but it would have been nice to track down the
cause.

Thanks for your help,
njh