Hi John, On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:52:42AM -0400, John Parejko wrote: <snip> > > > >I would examine /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfs?????.prerm (check spelling for > >correct script) and either find the error and find a way to fix what the > >script is bombing on OR (since I suggest removing xfs-xtt) putting > >'exit 0' at the top of the script to disable it. And the then remove the > >package. > > Ok, I looked at them, but they were garbled.
They should be readable human text. Are they not? If they are 'garbage'
like 'a1234as1234*&^;' then this would indicate a harddisk/filesystem
corruption or a virii, maybe.
> It turns out that
> xfs-xtt.* are all file type "data" -- "file xfs-xtt.*" -- and not
> readable. 64 files total in /var/lib/dpkg/info are also type data,
> according to
>
> file * | grep -c " data"
>
> and these are spread cross a seemingly random range of programs. I
> think this is probably a bad thing, and don't know how it would have
> happened. All the files in this directory should be plaintext shell
> files or just contain md5-sums, right?
This directory contains files that are either installation scripts,
checksum files, lists of installed files, and some other files. All
should be human readable. The prefixes of the filenames reflects the
installed packages on your system. It is not 'random'. Not sure what you
mean by 'bad thing'?
>
> Ideas on how to fix this?
I had given you a suggestion in my previous post. Did you try it or do
you need further clarification as to what to do?
Happy atom splitting,
Kev
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