Re: missing rm

[Tom Allison]

J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:31:16 -0500, Tom Allison wrote:

OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing.

rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk).

That's weird - that upgrade path should work. (It shouldn't be possible to
install testing's placeholder fileutils package without coreutils being
installed already)

Any suggestions short of a rebuild?

None of the dpkg/apt utilities will function because they all error out with 'rm blah blah blah' fail (because there is no rm).

You could try putting coreutils' rm in place via
dpkg-deb -x coreutils.deb /
then dpkg --pending --configure
and try if the system's recoverable from that state.

HTH,
Ray

I was eventually able to get this fixed, I had to use 'scp' to copy over the missing bin files and then reinstall fileutils and so on.

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