On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 22:44:38 -0500, Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:21:59AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: >> Well I've got round my ldconfig problems. Eventually I found >> base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, wrote it >> to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. With the addition >> of some of the rescue disk itself (fsck) I got an ldconfig, and got it >> to boot again, after several false starts. I then used dpkg -i to >> reinstall most of the stuff in main/binary-i386/base which got most >> stuff working, including dselect. >> >> I'm now using dselect to reinstall pretty much everything and get the >> system back into a consistent state. I have got a few errors on some >> packages due to /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/foo being corrupt. (eg. foo >> = awk) >> >> Is it permissible simply to delete these files? Will I risk breaking >> the whole thing again? If so, how do I restore them? > >See man update-alternatives to see how you would normally modify files >in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. I am not sure if anything would break >if you just delete the files. Ah, the old Linux game, guess the name of the man page :-) >The files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives are ascii text, so you could edit >them with vi, emacs, bvi, or any text editor. I would suggest bvi or >ghex so you can see what nonprintable are in the files. > >Here is a couple of examples (vi & emacs) of what files in >/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives look like. These would be different on you >computer depending on what packages you have installed. ><snip> >I hope this helps. Yeah, it did. Thanks! The format of the entries was OK, and the files looked normal when catted. Viewing unprintables revealed the presence of Microsoft LF/CR line breaks... >> I found base2_1.tgz on my Debian CD, unzipped it on my Windoze box, >>wrote it to a CD, and copied stuff in using the rescue disk. ...WinZip had oh-so-helpfully inserted CRs into every single text file. Curiously, this only actually broke a few of them, so I thought it was an isolated phenomenon until I scanned the whole of the LoseZip-unzipped base2_1.tgz and found about 500 files. AARGH! Moral: Never forget that Windoze software does stupid things without telling you. Thanks again, Pigeon C:\WINDOWS>ren win.com lose.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
