On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:17:57 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > >> What about `apt-get install --reinstall' > > Tried, been there: > > # apt-get install --reinstall > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > Actually, I tried a lot of things, like > > dpkg --get-selections | sed -ne 's,[[:space:]]install$,,p' | xargs > apt-get install --reinstall --yes > > which I got from the archives; but it won't do the trick:
<snip> > Reinstallation of libwraster2 is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 954 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgrad > Need to get 0B/583MB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for debianutils, probably a depen > y cycle. > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Reinstallation of lprngtool is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > Reinstallation of mc-common is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. <snip> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 383 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgrad > Need to get 0B/349MB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on passwd I also didn't find "can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct" on all of google. dpkg-reconfigure --all came with many similar errors and finally crashed. So what I did was apt-get install --reinstall locale which removed those error messages. Then apt-get install --reinstall dpkg Finally I selected all packages for reinstall containing fonts: dpkg --get-selections | grep font | cut -f 1 > fontfile for fils in `cat fontfile`; do echo "reinstalling $fils"; apt-get install --reinstall $fils --yes; done and similarly everything about xfce4: dpkg --get-selections | grep xfce | cut -f 1 > filexfce for fils in `cat filexfce`; do echo "reinstalling $fils"; apt-get install --reinstall $fils --yes; done and rebooted. Now most of the fonts are back, and so are the functions of xfce4 that I had used before. Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems, and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'. And now I ask for your advice because I have no courage to do the trick as done above for all packages; like dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 > allfiles for fils in `cat allfiles`; do echo "reinstalling $fils"; apt-get install --reinstall $fils --yes; done since it works now and I don't want to screw the system completely. Rather, I still have a hope that there is an integrated repair function for the rest of my problems. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
