Thanks for that, I'll give it a try. Mine is a binary file ;) so .. it's well corrupted. Didn't think of looking at the 'other' *.list files to see hat they had in them.
- Ramon. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Steve Kowalik > Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2002 7:08 PM > To: SLUG List > Subject: Re: [SLUG] corrupted dpkg ? > > > At 11:34 pm, Wednesday, August 21 2002, ramon buckland mumbled: > > The error > > " files list file for package `update' contains empty filename" > is always the > > same > > though. > > > You need to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/update.list file. Here's mine: > > steven@broken:~/linda$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/update.list > /. > /sbin > /sbin/update > /usr > /usr/share > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/update > /usr/share/doc/update/copyright > /usr/share/doc/update/changelog.Debian.gz > /usr/share/man > /usr/share/man/man8 > /usr/share/man/man8/update.8.gz > > Put that in /var/lib/dpkg/info/update.list and try again. > > -- > Steve > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
