Re: Broken /var filesystem
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only says you can delete data from /var/cache. So, I re-initialized /var. Welcome to a nearly endless world of pain. Where are your backups, BTW? Ah, yes. Backups. Waiting 'til I can afford a RW+DVD or some other suitably high-capacity device to make them onto. :-! Can anyone identify what directories and files dpkg requires to exist? /var/lib/dpkg/status (empty) If that doesn't work, I figure by tonight I will go back to my Woody-CD's and build up again from there. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner. -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linux, I'm FREE at last! Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken /var filesystem
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only says you can delete data from /var/cache. So, I re-initialized /var. Welcome to a nearly endless world of pain. Where are your backups, BTW? Can anyone identify what directories and files dpkg requires to exist? /var/lib/dpkg/status (empty) Didn't seem to help. Scr** it! Back to the CD's -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner. -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linux, I'm FREE at last! Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broken /var filesystem
I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. And it was messing me up horribly anyway. So, I re-initialized /var. One of the things that vanished, of course, is dpkg/apt's memory of what is installed. Right now, dpkg doesn't think dpkg is installed! Everything runs, until it needs to refer to the database. I googled around, and found some similar reports. The proposed cure involved installing 'mawk' and 'dpkg' with '--force-depends.' Then I should be able to re-install libc6, on which nearly everything depends. However, before I can get to that point, I get unable to create updated files list file for package mawk: No such file or directory. So, it looks as though I need to manually re-create at least one more directory. I checked the contents.gz files, but they only mention files that are actually present in the tarball, not those created by the installation scripts. I think, if I can get past this, I can get dpkg to re-install itself and that will cure whatever other things are destroyed. Can anyone identify what directories and files dpkg requires to exist? TIA -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner. -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linux, I'm FREE at last! Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken /var filesystem
David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only says you can delete data from /var/cache. So, I re-initialized /var. Welcome to a nearly endless world of pain. Where are your backups, BTW? Can anyone identify what directories and files dpkg requires to exist? /var/lib/dpkg/status (empty) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
