On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:17:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thus spake Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> But for some reason, it insisted on removing kmail. This wasn't a big
> deal, because she'd abandoned kmail for thunderbird over a year ago,
> but occasionally she wants to use it.
>
> However, immediately after the dist-upgrade I did an apt-get install
> kmail which worked perfectly. So obviously no broken/unment
> dependencies.
Either that or the original dist-upgrade was confused about broken
packages -- and the actual upgrade clear up the confusion. But,
it's things like that which make me want more details about why
apt-get or aptitude are removing a package.
And my dist-upgrade today, well, it didn't go so well. Looks like my
package system is destroyed.
I ran aptitude dist-upgrade and was using mozilla at the same time.
Mozilla vanished off the screen and then I noticed an error from
aptitude in the xterm window. Then the my CPU monitor went to 100%
and the system would not respond.
I never had that happen before.
Now trying to re-run aptitude I get:
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
dpkg: --compare-versions takes three arguments: <version> <relation>
<version>
...
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
Tried a few other things like removing /var/lib/dpkg/available and
also restoring from "available-old" and keep getting some error that
finally results in a "bash" prompt where NOTHING works on the system.
Try running any command (like ls) and it says:
bash: /bin/ls : Input/ouptut error
Mutt was still open and then it complained it couldn't open a file in
/tmp -- and then it died.
Any suggestions on how to try and get the package system working
again?
$ dpkg --get-selections
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
I have a bad feeling about this...
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Bill Moseley
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