On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 04:37:01AM +0100, José LuisGarcÃa Pacheco wrote: > Hello, > Sometime ago I got the Debian GNU/Linux 1.1.4.Sept96 release. Working > with it, I managed to set up my little system at home.(I was very proud > of myself ;-)). > Two months ago, I borrowed from some friends the Debian 1.3.1. release. > Eagerly :-) I began updating packages, installing this, purging that,... > > In the middle of the fun, it ocurred to me that it could be interesting > to have the new dpkg package(s) on my system. So I installed > dpkg1.4.0.8.deb, dpkg_cross_0.1.deb, dpkg -dev_1.4 and dpkg_ftp_1.9.8, > well the dpkg-related packages appearing in my new distribution. > > A few days ago, I ran 'dpkg -l' and I got a message reading something > like 'problems while parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available'. I realized that > this database was corrupted!. Lots of package info lines were repeated > even twice or more times. I tried to restore it (by hand) and finally I > achieved to leave it "operative" (that means I can do dpkg -l, -s, > -iGOEB, --purge,... ) but there are still repeated lines (that someday I > will have to delete). > The question is : is there somebody out there with an idea of what > happened in my sistem?. Could it happen again and under what > circunstances?.
Maybe a corrupted Packages file was installed? If it is only available that got messed up, then it shouldn't be too bad. Every day I do: dpkg --update-avail Packages dpkg --merge-avail Non-Free dpkg --merge-avail Contrib dpkg --merge-avail Non-US (Non-Free etc are the Packages.gz files (uncompressed) from the non-free section). The first line replaces available with the Packages file, the other three lines add the other packages in. PS: Please only post to one mailing list - debian-user is the right one in this case. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
