Re: dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)

2003-12-02 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Aaron! On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:07:40AM -0800, Aaron Maxwell wrote: [...] I've included a typescript that succinctly demonstrates what's happening. In the script, I have aptitude purge'd and then aptitude install'ed the cvs package. Notice that there are errors and warnings from /usr/sha

FIXED - Re: dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)

2003-12-02 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Things seem to be behaving well now. Here's what I did: 1) I found the correct /var/lib/dpkg/status in /lost+found. I simply hadn't thought to check until an hour ago. Replaced. 2) I removed the files /var/cache/debconf/*. I got the suggestion from this from this post: http://lists.debian.o

dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)

2003-12-01 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Sorry for the junk characters in the previous message. This repost is easier to read. Hi. I'm running last week's sarge. I unfortunately had to reboot my box in the middle of an aptitude dist-upgrade. Now I am having getting errors installing and removing packages. From the error messages,

dpkg database corrupted, with a twist

2003-12-01 Thread Aaron Maxwell
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