Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:19:53 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI >> disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically >> identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:55:04AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package > >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI > disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically > identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are > different. > I ran this past my fianc

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for. > > Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was o

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-28 Thread Paul Morgan
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > > Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on > one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old - > now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI). And my backups A bit of trivia: For a

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-28 Thread A . L . Meyers
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > [large snip] > > > > Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, > > alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the > > installed packages. Probably

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: [large snip] > > Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, > alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the > installed packages. Probably something else got corrupted. Where > should those file list

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-25 Thread A . L . Meyers
"Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > > Apparently something went wrong in the

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file > corruption. > > Anyw

apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file corruption. Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing apt