On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 06:27:32PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > Did you check whether the contents of /var/lib/dpkg are intact > > (specifically, the status file and info/*.list)? > > The status file exists but is empty, and the info/*.list seem to be intact.
status should theoretically be recoverable. As for the segfault, it may be this: dpkg (1.9.1) unstable; urgency=low * Fix segfault with empty status and available, and when missing a trailing new line. Closes: Bug#95496 -- - mdz