On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Nathan Hurst wrote: > > Chiton:~# dpkg --listfiles xutils | grep X11R6/bin/rstart > > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `xutils' missing, > > assuming package has no files currently installed. > > > > The machine is uptodate wrt apt-get update. > > This means your box is in deep trouble. This really doesn't have anything > to do with with the XFree86 packages. Something extremely wayward stomped > around in /var/lib/dpkg/info, or you have filesystem corruption.
Ok, I removed the X related packages as best I could, changed the sources.list and reinstalled the xstuff, and it installed without complaint. It's a fix, but it would have been nice to track down the cause. Thanks for your help, njh
