On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2013-11-03 at 08:22 +0100, Fox Charli wrote: > > > Here are the output to the commands you asked : > > Sounds like your system is very damaged, I wonder how you did that... >
I also wonder. It was running perfectly until I tried to fix an error in my logs. > Hopefully these will work around the brokenness and get the info I need: > > dpkg -l $(grep -rl $(which apt-get) /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sed > 's_.*info/\([^\.]*\).*_\1_') > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii apt 0.8.10.3+squee Advanced front-end for dpkg > dpkg -l $(grep -rl /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | > sed 's_.*info/\([^\.]*\).*_\1_') > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii apt 0.8.10.3+squee Advanced front-end for dpkg A reinstall would be the best way to completely fix this, especially > since squeeze will be EOL soon. > I think this might be my next move after this, but I am asking out of curiosity. > If you want to get it working without doing that, start by manually > downloading the appropriate versions of apt and libpth20 and > re-installing them onto your system with dpkg -i. > I tried that too, but the system seems highly broken wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.8.10.3+squeeze1_armel.deb wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pth/libpth20_2.0.7-16_armel.deb dpkg -i libpth20_2.0.7-16_armel.deb (Reading database ... 95%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'libpth20' is missing final newline dpkg -i apt_0.8.10.3+squeeze1_armel.deb (Reading database ... 95%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'libpth20' is missing final newline Fabien
