Hi,
You may recall that I destroyed my /var partition earlier this month
trying to learn how to use dd to clone a hard drive. See:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg00612.html
I have, surprisingly, managed to mostly recover from backups. However, I
did not have a full /var backup and keep coming across sub-directories
of /var that some program or other cannot find. A full hierarchy of /var
from a clean minimal Sarge installation would be welcome.
My most immediate problem is that dselect won't let me upgrade anything
because when I tell it to update, it replies:
dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile
I've tried creating several /var subdirectories that I think dselect
might be looking for, including:
/var/cache/apt/archives/
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
/var/lib/apt/lists
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/
but I still get the same error. Can anyone explain how to allow dselect
to create the lockfile it wants to?
Thanks,
Brian
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