On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:37:33PM -0400, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I did something dumb. I was playing around with some debs and hacking > some control files, when I accidentally removed /var/lib/dpkg/info !!! > Now, if I even try to do 'aptitude reinstall ~i', I am greeted with > "Writing extended state information... Error!". dpkg --list still > shows all the currently installed packages, but I am unable to > reinstall. Does anyone have a good idea on how to recover from > this??? Ideally, I think it would be easiest to reinstall all the > packages, since they are all from the repositories and none are > non-standard.
Does this help? http://mm.bbspals.org/linux/lost-var-lib-dpkg-on-debian/ -dsr- -- Every time you give up a right, the terrorists win. http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
