Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler wrote: > > A cold boot and a manual fsck later, dpkg is rife with errors. Here > > are some sample errors, followed by the files in /lost+found. Any > > suggestions for proceeding would be appreciated. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:531]# dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > Use of uninitialized value in exists at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29. > > Use of uninitialized value in exists at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29. > > Use of uninitialized value in length at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 139, <GEN1> line 3. > > Use of uninitialized value in exists at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 49, <GEN1> line 6. > > Use of uninitialized value in exists at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 6. > > Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 77, <GEN1> line 6. > > You can probably fix the immediate problem by zeroing out every .dat > file in /var/cache/debconf. After doing that, there were some segmentation violations during the first pass of "apt-get upgrade", but I was running with Dpkg::Options="--debug=03" which may or may not have anything to do with it. A subsequent "apt-get install -f" finished the job with no errors.
Thanks for your usual dead-on analysis, Joey, and your suggestions, Mark. > I'd appreciate it if you could send me a tarball of the directory before > you wipe them out though. Coming soon in another envelope. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
