On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:59:49 -0400, Marty wrote: >> It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is >> screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade >> anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ?
> Some things I meant to add to my first reply was the in lieu of > debsums you can unzip all the files and directories of the deb package > files into a temporary directory using dpkg-deb, and compare them to > your installed version. This doesn't seem to hard to do in a script. Done, and it seems okay; no differences. > I've heard of cases of corruption the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ install and > deinstall scripts, so you might want to give those special attention. There are about 2000; I tried my best and don't find differences. > Finally, if you haven't already, you might give some thought to what is > corrupting your disk. Nothing. There were no problems before and there are none when I run fsck afterwards. > If there's a hardware problem you could be getting > ongoing failures and even make the condition worse. You may want to > clone the disk and work on the copy on another system. Yes, but I rather clone it when it is back to normal. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
