Richard Cobbe wrote: > On a related note, how come /var/lib/dpkg/available keeps getting hosed? > It's happened to me twice now. The first time, I figured I was SOL and > re-installed from scratch (fortunately I didn't lose much). It happened > again about an hour ago, but I recovered by blowing away the existing > copy (on the grounds that I didn't have anything to lose) and rerunning > `dselect update', which recreated it correctly. What's going on here?
Not sure. Did you originally create your local mirror with apt-move 3.x (potato version) ? Are you now using 4.x (woody version) ? If so you need to read /usr/share/doc/apt-move/README. There were major changes between 3.x and 4.x. If you have not done apt-move fsck then perhaps the Packages.gz apt-move creates are corrupted and this in turn is affecting /var/lib/dpkg/available. -- Simon Hepburn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]