On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 12:23, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:03:00AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> > What's this "serious warning" business all about? Why should the lpr
> > package care what kernel source package I have installed? (2.0.36 FYI),
> > but I might well want to install lpr with _NO_ kernel source files
> > installed.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > desktop# dpkg -i lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb
> > (Reading database ...
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package
> > `kernel-source-2.2.12' missing, assuming package has no files currently
> > installed.
>
> This has nothing to do with lpr. It's from dpkg checking it's install
> files (/var/lib/dpkg/info/*) and making sure all is well before proceeding
> with the upgrade. Apparently, you removed (or something removed) the
> kernel-source-2.2.12 .list file from that directory, so dpkg removes the
> references to it from /var/lib/dpkg/status, since it now believes the
> package is not installed.
You are so right. I now recall that I attempted to install
kernel-source-2.2.12 (forgetting which machine I was on and running out
of disk space). I "recovered" by killing the dpkg -i process and
deleting the .deb file and the partial /usr/src/kernel-2.2.12 tree.
Now I have this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l | grep kernel
ii kernel-doc-2.0. 2.0.36-3 Linux kernel specific documentation.
ii kernel-image-2. Compaq.3.0 Linux kernel binary image.
ii kernel-package 6.05 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
ii kernel-source-2 2.0.36-3 Linux kernel source.
iHR kernel-source-2 2.2.12-4
desktop# dpkg --purge kernel-source-2.2.12
dpkg: error processing kernel-source-2.2.12 (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
kernel-source-2.2.12
desktop# ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source*
/var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.36.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.36.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-source-2.0.36.postrm
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Cheers,
Pann
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