On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Nathan Hurst wrote:
> > Chiton:~# dpkg --listfiles xutils | grep X11R6/bin/rstart
> > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `xutils' missing,
> > assuming package has no files currently installed.
> >
> > The machine is uptodate wrt apt-get update.
>
> This means your box is in deep trouble. This really doesn't have anything
> to do with with the XFree86 packages. Something extremely wayward stomped
> around in /var/lib/dpkg/info, or you have filesystem corruption.
Ok, I removed the X related packages as best I could, changed the
sources.list and reinstalled the xstuff, and it installed without
complaint. It's a fix, but it would have been nice to track down the
cause.
Thanks for your help,
njh
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