Ariel Tankus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > I've been upgrading a Hamm Beta into Slink.
>> ...
>> >It mostly went fine, but a couple of times I have received error
>> >messages about non-zero exit codes from gzip -dc
>I've checked my md5sum, just to find out it is ok.
...
>I would guess that the problem is indeed not this specific
>package, but rather that something is broken in dpkg, apt
>my own database or the like. The problem is how to recover
>from this situation...
>
>Is there any way to re-build the packages database
>(except from re-installing them, of course)?
I believe the database consists of only /var/lib/dpkg/status and
/var/lib/dpkg/*, which are all plain text files. You can look for
corruption.
I suggest you run strace to try to learn more about the failure:
strace -o /tmp/log -ff dpkg -i foo.deb
Then look at the last two dozen lines in each of the files /tmp/log*.
- Jim Van Zandt
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