On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:34:39 +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> 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).
Thanks for your help. I have messed up some time ago, while mixing
stable and testing. Had to do with new Perl versions and such. I gave up
at the time but want to fix things now.
I think I have managed to recreate the file by giving:
touch /var/lib/dpkg/status
The error is gone, but the file contains only entries for things I have
installed after the 'touch'. So now:
apt-get dist-upgrade
suggests to upgrade libc6 and if I do:
apt-get install libc6
I get:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc6
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1901kB of archives. After unpacking 9798kB will be
used.
(Reading database ... 117 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.1.3-19_i386.deb) ...
dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-19_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-19_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
It seems that dpkg is not installed (not in the status file). So if I
do:
apt-get install dpkg
I get:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
dpkg: PreDepends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but it is not going to be
installed
PreDepends: libncurses5 but it is not going to be installed
libstdc++2.10: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) but it is not
going to be installed
So it seems to be a circular dependency.
Anyway, I seem to need a way to regenerate the status file from
currently installed packages on my system, or is there some alternative
smart scenario thinkable?
Thanks a lot!
--
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
