I'm not too worried about losing anything. It's an embedded device
which runs off a flash drive, and its only purpose is to act as a file
server for a mounted USB drive. I've checked the drive and it's fine,
but its entirely possible the flash drive has been corrupted.
# cat
I've pulled the flash drive, and ran e2fsck on it, correcting the
errors that it found. I also emptied out a number of corrupt .list
files, as suggested earlier.
This is the error I get now:
# apt-get --reinstall install coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0
Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade:
# apt-get -fm install dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
lzma
The following packages will be upgraded:
dpkg
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins erichigg...@gmail.com
was heard to say:
Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade:
# apt-get -fm install dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
lzma
The
Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:
It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?
# cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by installdeb-wordlist
case $1 in abort-install|remove)
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins wrote:
files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list seems to be corrupted.
Check it (and possibly also the filesystem)
In case of dubt, you could try
mv
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Eric Higgins erichigg...@gmail.com
was heard to say:
Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:
It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?
It looks like it got replaced by the
I've been unable to upgrade my debian machine for months now, just
getting around to trying to fix it.
~$ uname -a
Linux NSLUG 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx #1 Tue Feb 12 00:57:53 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux
I've had some luck with these instructions:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/07/msg03322.html
On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 21:33 +0100, Eric Higgins wrote:
# apt-get upgrade
...
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
Errors were
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