> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> > > What removes it? I suspect it's not dpkg... (or we would have noticed
> > > it already)
> >
> > Hm, only started dpkg. So I suspected it.
>
> Did your machine crash/lose power during an upgrade?
No, never had a crash or a hard power down since I switched to ext4. A fsck
tells me also that everything is in a sane state.
> > work. The only thing I did in between was to reboot. Maybe it is/was a
> > filesystem bug... which would be cruel. I will mark this bug as
> > unreproducible for now.
>
> Maybe the bug is a missing fsync() in dpkg in some cases... but currently
> it looks like a filesystem problem yes.
Hm, the problem is only that I can do what I want but cannot reproduce it
anymore. And at this precise moment in time I could reproduce it without any
hazzle.
> - what kernel version are you using?
2.6.31-r5
> - what filesystem are you using for /var/lib/dpkg?
ext4
Greets,
Peter
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