Bug#276060: apt problems: Maybe that helps
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:31:17AM +0100, Helmut Toplitzer wrote:
> I ran into the same problem on a clean (quite minimal) stable
> system. (apt 0.5.4)
> Heres what I've done to resolve the problem:
>
> diff /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> to see what has changed during the last working apt-cycle.
> Take a note somewhere. (In my case it was the removing of iptables
> package which reproducible crashed my apt, even after reinstall
> etc.)
>
> cp status-old to status
>
> undo the done by reinstalling the affected packages.
Can you send a copy of status-old, and the status file before and after the
reinstall?
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- mdz
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