Hi Terry,
> sed -n 'l; /^}/q' /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/AutoSelect.pm
> \377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\
> \377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\
> \377\377\377\377\377\37......
>
> Screen-fulls of that.
The file is corrupt. 377 is octal for 255, i.e. the file starts with
bytes of FF in hexadecimal. This is typical of an erased sector of
non-volatile memory.
Check the disk media in some way, then the filesystem's meta data, and
if all of that's well then it's probably just the bytes in some files
which are corrupt. debsums(1) can help there.
sudo -i debsums -s
--
Cheers, Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-05-07 20:00
Check to whom you are replying
Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk
New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
