Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dpkg
I'm struggling with a filesystem that was corrupted by a kernel problem
(reported seperately). Some files did not survive an fsck correctly:
$ sudo ls -ld /var/lib/dpkg/info/libical0.*
p----w---- 1 proxy 4122 0 1970-01-10 16:48
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libical0.list
I don't expect dpkg to be able to do anything with this, but I would
like to get some debugging information when trying to track this down.
As it was, it was hanging on "(Reading database ..." with no other
information available, no matter what level I set the debugging to.
It would be nice if dpkg could verify that a file was un-readable or not
actually a file, etc before reading it.
Alternatively, a debugging level could be added so that every file under
/var/lib/dpkg/info is printed as it is accessed. In this way, it would
be easier to track down the problem since output would stall out on the
bad file.
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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dpkg hangs with no information on corrpted /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369898
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