Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread Helge Hafting
I had a filesystem crash that damaged a few files. dpkg wouldn't run after this, complaining about errors. (dselect was running at the time of the crash) I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available because there was a backup. But some other files was ruined, such as emacs19.list and ed.list

Re: Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 27 Apr, Helge Hafting wrote about Fixing dpkg database after disk crash I had a filesystem crash that damaged a few files. dpkg wouldn't run after this, complaining about errors. (dselect was running at the time of the crash) I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available because

Re: Fixing dpkg database after disk crash

1999-04-27 Thread James M . Mastros
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 08:02:14PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available because there was a backup. Wouldn't running apt-get update remake that file anyway? But some other files was ruined, such as emacs19.list and ed.list dpkg would not run because of