broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread David E. Fox
had a big problem this afternoon - had some serious issues with the reiserfs on /dev/hda1 (an oldish 1.6 gig maxtor), ended up not being able to fsck it to an orderly state. Had to redo the whole fs, (should have made a backup) and grab a /var from a ubuntu disk. Obviously, ubuntu is not debian,

Re: broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
David E. Fox wrote: had a big problem this afternoon - had some serious issues with the reiserfs on /dev/hda1 (an oldish 1.6 gig maxtor), ended up not being able to fsck it to an orderly state. Had to redo the whole fs, (should have made a backup) and grab a /var from a ubuntu disk. Obviously,

Re: broken /var

2006-10-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:54:01 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also had some issues with reiserfs and have always sticked to ext3 ever since. I guess the advantages of reiserfs don't warrant experiments on important data. ext3 is rock solid on debian. YMMV. Well, I had

broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, apt-get complains: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package `ksysguard': `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` ' Indeed, the status file at that line looks like this Replaces: kdebase ( 4:3.0.0), kdebase-doc ( 4:3.0.0), kpm (

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, apt-get complains: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 18124 package `ksysguard': `Depends' field, reference to `xlibs': version contains ` ' Indeed, the status file at that line looks like

Re: broken /var/lib/dpkg/status

2005-11-08 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/8/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a graceful way to fix it? TIA,Edit the file and change it to libsm6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0) just plain editor? no fancy tools? worked, though. thanks! -a

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
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

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
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

Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-06 Thread David A. Cobb
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

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-06 Thread Joey Hess
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

apt-get totally broken: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: debconf: DbDriver config: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process and

Re: apt-get totally broken: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked

2003-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Schulman wrote: This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: debconf: DbDriver config: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked

Re: apt-get totally broken: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
Andrew Schulman wrote: This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: debconf: DbDriver config: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is