to make it
clear that I tried for a few days with no success, and am now making a plea to
the Debian community.
Jon Eisenstein
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clear that I tried for a few days with no success, and am now making a plea
to the Debian community.
Jon Eisenstein
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I use cvs in Debian for lots of things but I'm still a newcomer in
this field, I think I am not being able to get new created directories
and files from the cvs repository with an cvs update, are there
arguments or options to do this?
Try using 'cvs update -d'. That should update newly
Again, could:
http://bugs.debian.org/95981
have anything to do with this?
It likely does, but I am unable to recompile dpkg as I can't install
gettext.
I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed
situation:
dpkg -i foo
Segmentation fault
Dselect: Update
Okay
Dselect: Select
Segmentation fault
dpkg --unpack foo
Segmentation fault
dpkg --help
Okay
What can I do? I
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:15:58PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote:
I seem to be in a very troublesome spot... My dpkg segfaults in any needed
situation:
Maybe try strace'ing it (of course if you have strace installed)?
In this reply, I'm replying to many questions and support from different
Did you check whether the contents of /var/lib/dpkg are intact (specifically,
the status file and info/*.list)?
The status file exists but is empty, and the info/*.list seem to be
intact.
Alright, so, with the help of many people on the list and my own perusal
of my lost+found, I've discovered that my problem is indeed the fact that
I'm missing my status file. The one I found is broken, but I have an older
version on a backup. Anyone know of a way to regenerate my status
file? Even
I'm now having problems with dpkg complaining about Available: and
Size: fields from my /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should I just get rid of
them? Or, as I asked before, is there a way to regenerate my status file
so it complies?
Interestingly, I tried to recompile dpkg with the patch mentioned
to. If it belongs on debian-policy alone and not
debian-devel, please respond only on the former.
Jon Eisenstein
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