On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 18:16:33 +0100, John Lord wrote:
> *dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `locales' missing, *
> *assuming package has no files currently installed.*
>
> Anyone advice why this is now being reported?
Information in the /var/lib/dpkg/ hierarchy which dpkg uses to keep track of
what packages you have installed got corrupted (the file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.list is missing) for some reason; one possible
cause could be that a filesystem is full. Try
apt-get --reinstall install locales
HTH,
Ray
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