Please excuse this second post of the same question; I am getting desperate.
I am having a problem with dselect; the computer (running Debian 2.1) hung while installing packages, and would not respond to control-c, to trying to log in onanother console, nothing. I rebooted, and now dpkg, dselect and apt all hang when trying to do anything. Is there a file I can edit/nuke to fix this? I tried to recover by replacing /var/lib/dpkg/status with an earlier stored file, but this does not seem to make any difference. I could really use the help; it is kind of hard to devote any work to a system which currently does not let you install or remove packages.
