Hello, On Mon, 20 May 2013, Hans-Juergen Becker wrote: > The "missing" files are existing, but doesn't have the ":<arch>" in > there filenames:
Somehow it means that you have "/var/lib/dpkg/info/format" with a content of "1" when you shouldn't have it yet (you certainly shouldn't have it before you upgraded dpkg). Did you try a first upgrade and then forcefully unpack an older version of dpkg at some point? In theory, when you upgrade to a multiarch dpkg, things keep working as usual (with the old layout) but as soon as you start dpkg on a operation that implies writing to the database, the database gets upgraded to the newer format for files and at that point it creates /var/lib/dpkg/info/format with a value of 1. Note that "dpkg -C" doesn't open the database in write mode so will not trigger the upgrade to a multiarch compatible database. > Now while wrinting this bug report i've noticed that dpkgs' configuration > files also weren't correctly upgraded: A removed conffile is never restored, that's normal behaviour. In any case, the problem is certainly not affecting everybody and if you don't have any idea of what you could have done wrong, it will be difficult to solve. Your log doesn't show the value of /var/lib/dpkg/info/format at the different points, so it's difficul to know where you started from and whether you see a real bug or the result of some bad operation of yours. > Attached is a log of the described problem, containing a -D7777 dpkg > installation - perhaps you can figure something out of it. Nope, it doesn't help much. The new dpkg is installed by the old one. What's interesting is how the new one behaves after the initial installation. And the upgrade code doesn't generate any log message, so the strace output might be more interesting. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
