On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:43:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > fsck??? (original message below)
Well, tried that and yes it found lots of errors. I said yes fix it to 'm all and the result was that the status and diversion files are gone. >From a little research I did, it seems that this could mean my system is hosed. Not a happy camper if that would be the case. In /var/backups there is a copy of status from jan 7th. I installed software on the 9th (I know what packages they were), so it is not totally up to date. Can Iuse that version to rebuild it so that it would be current again? What about the diversions file? I only found info on that in the dpkg programmers' manual, which really is over my head. I also read (in the archives of the dpkg mailing list) that Wichert Akkerman wasworking -or intended to do so- on a script to rebuild the status file from /var/lib/dpkg/info. Is there any more info on that? In short, any pointers to how to proceed from here would be very welcome. dpkg version is 1.9.18 (i386) on woody thanks, Chris > On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:06 am, Chris wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Today I came across a weird thing: dpkg and apt are not working > > anymore. > > Only two days ago I have been installing some packages and I did not > > notice anything strange then -all went well. > > > > Today, on doing an apt-get update I got the error that it couldn't read > > the package list: > > > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (19 No such device) > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > > > In the /var/lib/dpkg directory it shows some weirdness: > > > > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Jan 9 22:11 . > > drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 1024 Dec 26 13:31 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 5 21:24 alternatives > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6319846 Jan 9 22:11 available > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6319846 Jan 9 22:11 available-old > > -rw-r--r-x 1 root root 8 Nov 4 19:53 cmethopt > > c--xrw---- 29811 1634428001 1701276020 88, 82 Aug 15 2027 > > diversions > > ?r----x-wT 25978 980640613 1814063443 1852795252 Aug 15 2027 > > diversions-old > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 78848 Jan 9 22:11 info > > -rw-r----x 1 root root 0 Jan 12 12:59 lock > > -rw-r----x 1 root root 0 Jan 12 12:58 methlock > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Oct 4 2000 methods > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 Dec 9 17:44 statoverride > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 Dec 9 17:44 statoverride-old > > c--xr--r-x 11890 1886347632 1769235828 115, 100 Jul 26 2010 status > > br-xr-sr-- 29793 1819895149 174417001 115, 101 Sep 17 2028 status-old > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 9 22:11 updates > > > > I have no clue how to solve this. I can do a 'touch -m' to correct the > > timestamp(just tried om status-old) but the ownership and file permissions > > I cannot change -no permission. These numbers do not appear my /etc/passwd > > or /etc/group file. > > > > I am running woody with a 2.4.16 kernel (my first home-made). > > > > Please advice, > > > > thanks > > Chris
