On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Hi. I realise this isn't a ppc question, but since I've had no response > on debian-user over the last 2 days I thought I would take the liberty > of trying here (where people have always been helpful!). > > A server went down during an apt-get dist-upgrade. It looks like some > sort of cache value is missing in the dpkg database -- I had to fsck the > disk by hand after the crash and a there were a fair number of problems. > > This problem exists for a number of packages, but not all of them. Is > there any way of rebuilding the database or reinstalling dpkg from > scratch without having to rebuild the server? > > The errors start like this when installing ssh (for instance): > Unpacking ssh (from ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-1_i386.deb) ... > Use of uninitialized value in exists at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29. > Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm > line 66, <GEN1> line 4.
use apt-get install --reinstall to reinstall any package, including dpkg and apt-get. You can also try apt-get install --fix-broken which often does the right thing. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)
