Bug#367226: --abort-after does nothing

2008-11-18 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 08:14 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Just noticed that as a side effect of fixing the RC bug #497041, > #499070, this got improved as well. The problem here was a combination > of the entanglement of unrelated error condition handling (too many > errors + fatal error) and ba

Bug#367226: --abort-after does nothing

2008-11-17 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 00:59:47 +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > files list file for package libvte-common' contains empty filename > > Probably worth adding that the libvte-common corruption was different to > the others. With the others, the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list file did not > exist. W

Bug#367226: --abort-after does nothing

2006-05-14 Thread Drew Parsons
> files list file for package libvte-common' contains empty filename Probably worth adding that the libvte-common corruption was different to the others. With the others, the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list file did not exist. With libvte-common it had been replaced, apparently with the contents of /

Bug#367226: --abort-after does nothing

2006-05-14 Thread Drew Parsons
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.19 Severity: normal I had a system crash which knocked out some files in /var, including the lists of files in each package. I'm trying to restore, however dpkg will not even permit me to restore dpkg. It complains that the package file lists are not available for each