Hi peoples,
I got a debian box that, possibly due to harddrive
errors, the dpkg no longer installs anything.
Background:
This is the infamous PPP dialin box that I had so much trouble
with. (Turns out that was faulty Phone cord, and the combination
of two modems that REFUSED to communicate.. I can give the story
got the scars ;)
Anyways, so the box used to be on my network, with my apt-proxy source list
It was moved to the clients site and now, remotely I am trying to install
some things. I put the apt-source back to the defaults for stable
and did
apt-get update
and then ...
Symptoms:
# apt-get install <anything>
** calcs dependancies
** downloads etc etc
...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-11.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
files list file for package `update' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.5-11.1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too man errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returnd an error code (1)
And so forth...
This error can be reproduced by doing ANY type of apt-get action (or dpkg
action
for that matter)
The error
" files list file for package `update' contains empty filename" is always the
same
though.
Any ideas ?
ramon
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