Hi: Since I didn't receive any answer the first time I posted, I'm sending this again. Hope this time someone can help me, for I'm stuck with the problem and the only solution I see is reinstalling everything from the scratch (sometime I thought I would never had to do with Debian).
Thanks a lot, M. S. ----- Original message ---- Hi: Trying to upgrade the machine of a colegue, I found and awful problem with dpkg I haven't managed to deal with. Apparently, the package database got corrupted somehow, preventing me from upgrading any package. For example, if I try to upgrade libc5 with dpkg -i libc5_5.4.23-6.deb I get (Reading database ... 15789 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc5 5.4.20-1 (using libc5_5.4.23-6.deb) ... dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/07' for reading: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing libc5_5.4.23-6.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: libc5_5.4.23-6.deb Even more, upgrading dpkg doesn't work at all: (Reading database ... 15789 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.0.7 (using dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb) ... dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/07' for reading: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb Any clues on what may be happening? Regards, M. S. ------------ Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
