On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Michael Neuffer wrote: > > The database file is corrupted. What did you do to corrupt it? Is there a > > reliable way to corrupt it? > > Yes, by editing it by hand. :-)
So there's no bug in update-alternatives at least. > I had to do it a few weeks earlier to remove > some alternatives that were corrupted by a broken package. > (Things that constantly using unstable can do to you...) Hum, that should not happen. You should always be able to update-alternatives to fix stuff. > I had to edit and fix alternatives manually every now and then over the > past 15 years or so and never had (major) problems with that. Maybe I was > just lucky so far. You won't have to do this in the future, update-alternatives no longer allows installation of broken alternatives and fixes stuff itself for most cases. > > It lacks lots of empty lines at the end. Each alternative should have a > > set of line like this: > > <masterfile> > > <priority> > > <slave-file-1> > > <slave-file-2> > > ... > > <slave-file-13> > > > > Yet your last alternative only has 4 lines: > > ---- > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf > > 500 > > > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/x11-extra-modules > > ---- > > Yes I removed them. I wasn't aware that they were significant. *shrug* > The file format unfortunately isn't documented in the man page. Because it's not meant to be edited with anything else than update-alternatives... > Is there a way to find out how many empty lines are missing where? I documented the format above... in your specific case you need 15 lines in total (master + priority + 13 slaves). You already have 4 lines so you need 11 empty lines after. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110720124038.ge1...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com
