Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-07 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
YES! Sorry for that, couldn't help it... So I managed to get dpkg back on track. I tried to load the fifth debian cd so as to get access to fsck without having my root partition mounted. Thing is that there is only e2fsck available so I couldn't. Then I realized (and I'm pretty ashamed of it! :)

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-07 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: I remembered that I had the suse's 8.1 CDs here and that it supported ReiserFS (actually it was the one proposed by default). So I booted with them, typed reiserfsck --rebuil-tree /dev/hda5 and voila. I still got the errors from dpkg but it didn't stop, it continued the

Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Original Message Subject: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. From:Papadopoulos Alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, November 6, 2003 12:56 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Hi there! Just yesterday I've finished installing Debian linux (Sarge). I decided to install flash plugin for mozilla, apt-get it (dependency made me download ruby and libruby). The libruby installation failed since my system hanged up (), no way to kill X, no way to get access to console,

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that... I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info Here are the first lines : ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory ls: libatk1.0-0.list: No such file or directory ls: swat.postinst: No such file or

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that... I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info Here are the first lines : ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory snip ls: klipper.list: No such file or directory ls:

Correction: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Apparently the problem is somewhat bigger than that... I just typed ls -l in /var/lib/dpkg/info Here are the first lines : ls: libidl0.postrm: No such file or directory ls: bash.postinst: No such file or directory Oops, correction. Try /bin/ls -l, no /usr/bin/ls -l.

[Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Original Message Subject: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. From:Papadopoulos Alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, November 6, 2003 3:33 pm To: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Actually ls is in /bin/ for me. It doesn't change anything. I'm positive now that the problem is due to the fs, some weird messages appear in the boot process, What are the messages? Strange though, I'm using ReiserFS, are these I've never used ReiserFS, so am

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:37, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc. From:Papadopoulos Alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, November 6, 2003 3:33 pm To: Kent West [EMAIL

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive that this message is in any way related to my problem : ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0 Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting everything except /, well

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
The first time I runned it, it said something like that (sorry forgot), but it now says : /dev/hda1: clean, 30/8032 files, 11794/32098 blocks the 30 above means there are 30 corrupted files no ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: This is the message I get but apparently I was wrong, I'm not positive that this message is in any way related to my problem : ide0(3,5):vs-7000: search_by_entry_key: search_by_key returned item position == 0 Still I'm sure the problem is the fs. Now as for unmounting

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to replace one of the broken

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:53, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: Installing is impossible, whatever I do I mustn't need dpkg, it doesn't work. Now as for the copying files from somewhere else solution, it would be great but I have 2 problems : 1) I don't know where I could get those files 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to