On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:25:10 +0200 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2010-08-10 09:24 +0200, Török Edwin wrote: > > > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:35:56 +0200 > > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> On 2010-08-09 19:55 +0200, Török Edwin wrote: > >> > >> > On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:40:57 +0200 > >> > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > > >> >> On 2010-08-09 19:13 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > Could that have caused an empty diversions? > >> >> > >> >> Not on its own, I think; but if Török uses btrfs, it could have > >> >> been caused by a bug¹ in dpkg versions prior to 1.15.7. > >> > > >> > No, I use XFS for /var. I don't know if it is affected by that > >> > bug. > >> > >> I don't think so (else it would probably have been detected > >> earlier), but XFS used to have a problem with leaving empty files > >> on disk after system crashes. I don't know if that is still an > >> issue. > > > > I don't think I had a crash during a dpkg upgrade. > > Is there some script that I could hook into dpkg to warn me should > > the diversion file becomes empty again? That should give some clues > > if its a package's fault or filesystem's. > > You could write your own script monitoring /var/lib/dpkg/diversions > and hook that into dpkg via the post-invoke option in /etc/dpkg.cfg. > But I think it is very unlikely that a package could be the cause, > since that would likely have been noticed by more people. I still > suspect this is a filesystem problem. > > >> You will also have to remove any diverted files manually, I think. > > > > This command fixed it up for me: > > rm /usr/bin/*.single /usr/bin/corelist.bundled /usr/bin/perldoc.stub > > /usr/share/man/man1/corelist.bundled.1.gz > > > > I can now install perl-doc, libmodule-corelist-perl, and > > binutils-multiarch. > > There will be more problems, e.g. with bash or dash > diverting /bin/sh. If you cannot recover the diversions file from a > backup, be prepared for future unpack failures. OK, I think thats a good way to fix the diversions. Future package updates should eventually lead me to fix the diversions one by one :) > Do you have > a /var/lib/dpkg/diversions-old file that could be used for recovery? It only contained 1 entry related to binutils (and contains more now that I reinstalled some packages). So not really. Best regards, --Edwin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
