Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:19:53 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI >> disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically >> identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:55:04AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package > >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI > disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically > identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are > different. > I ran this past my fianc

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for. > > Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was o

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-28 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > > Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on > one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old - > now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI). And my backups A bit of trivia: For a

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-28 Thread A . L . Meyers
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > [large snip] > > > > Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, > > alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the > > installed packages. Probably

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: [large snip] > > Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, > alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the > installed packages. Probably something else got corrupted. Where > should those file list

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-25 Thread A . L . Meyers
"Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > > Apparently something went wrong in the

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file > corruption. > > Anyw