[By the way, no need to cc me on mailing list posts.] On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:09:31PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > David wrote: > > > I ran dpkg -l, dpkg --audit, got a bus error > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I'd be rather concerned about that last one. Are you sure you haven't > > got disk corruption or memory problems? An I/O error points to the > > former. Can you 'less /var/lib/dpkg/status' and scroll down to the end > > without errors? > > Nope, I get wierd stuff when I try that. I just checked, I get a read > error, and sum fails with an i/o error. > > Someone suggested removing it and trying again. I think I'll back up > my data some place else and reboot, then fsck the disk.
That sounds like a good idea to me. I wouldn't actually remove /var/lib/dpkg/status until you've run fsck, but it may turn out to be dead. In that case, there should be a recent backup in /var/lib/dpkg/status-old and older backups in /var/backups/dpkg.status.*, some of which may turn out to be usable. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
