Hello This bug (#47839) is now open for over a year, Matthew Gregan wrote:
"My /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-bin.list somehow became corrupted recently, which has prevented me from installing packages (including reinstalling ncurses-bin to fix the problem). In the end I had to ftp the package, and 'tar ztf data.tar.gz > ncurses-bin.list', then edit that by hand to make it correct, and place it in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Dpkg should be able to recover somehow, if the package is still available in the cache. Some kind of --force-reinstall which overwrites the currently installed package, except dpkg is failing before it gets to the stage where that would work. Or maybe an option to regenerate corrupted .list files from the cached packages - dpkg -C didn't pick up any problems when I ran it, which seems weird to be, if the install part of dpkg can't do anything." Well, through some weird reiserfs-problem, I got _all_ my .list-files padded with 0x00 at the end. And can't reinstall anything without fixing 1773 .list-files. So I'd really appreciate if that bug either got fixed, (and installing dpkg with tar...) or if you know a way to strip out that padding out of those files. BTW: I guess checking every and all .list-file is the _main_ problem of dpkg's lousy performance. Is this really, really necessary? Cheers Peter -- Peter Keel, Unix System Administrator Tel +41 1 287 2992 Cyberlink Internet Services AG Fax +41 1 287 2991 Richard Wagnerstrasse 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CH-8002 Zuerich http://www.cyberlink.ch
