Gentlefolk:
I was almost through upgrading to Potato when my hard drive
decided to develop some flaky sectors. Courtesy of Mr. Murphy,
they were on my /var partition, in /var/lib/dpkg/status* (the more
recent versions).
I've rebuilt /var, mostly, on a different spindle (/var was the
only partition on the bad spindle): I'd backed up /var before
starting the upgrade, and most of /var is readable, with a bit of
hassle. It's just that I can't get .../status back, and dpkg
balks at not having it :-).
Is there some way to rebuild the contents of `status' based on
what's on the system? If so, how? Is there some easier way out
of this fix?
Thanks for any answers you my provide.
Best wishes,
Max Hyre
