On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:34:04AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi - I have managed to spoil my Potato installation big time, I think. > I have the following error with whatever dpkg command I give: > > dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for > reading: No such file or directory
Ouch. How did that happen? If it happened as a result of dpkg doing
something weird, it is *definetely* worth reporting a bug on it (check
the outstanding bugs first).
Does the /var/lib/dpkg directory exist? If not, then you probably have
worse problems, and you ought to ignore the rest of this mail.
> Is there any way to regenerate these files from the current
> configuration?
Check in /var/backups. I *think* that dpkg by default creates backups in
here before doing stuff - (make backups of the backups in here too,
before to you fiddle too much with dpkg).
Hopefully, something as simple as
# cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status
should do the trick.
Note: I think that the backups in here are performed *before* dpkg
modifies the file. So you may loose out on the last (few?)
installations/de-installations you did. Re-installing (or
re-deinstalling) should bring your /var/lib/dpkg/status up-to-date
with reality.
> Any suggestions much appreciated!
>
> --
> Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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