Donovan
11-16-2000, 02:53 PM
Hi, today was a nightmare.
I ran an apt-get upgrade. It screwed our system, had to go to the NOC and restore previous kernel.
System is now back to working perfectly.
Except that ALL the dpkg system is screwed !!!
I don't know why, the /var/lib/dpkg/status file disapeared after the dramatic apt-get upgrade.
So ALL the functions involving this file (apt-get, dpkg, dpkg --list.....) are not working anymore because they can't read the file !!
I have backups, but they are outdated, since lots of stuff were updated during the apt-get upgrade and they don't seem to work.
Is there a way to rebuild the status file ? I mean I have lots of package installed, isn't there a way for the system to rebuild this file after seing what I have on the system ?
I would like also to have all the dependencies up to date and working.
Is it possible or am I completely dead and have no way to use again the debian package system ?
This is very important.
Thanks,
Donov
I ran an apt-get upgrade. It screwed our system, had to go to the NOC and restore previous kernel.
System is now back to working perfectly.
Except that ALL the dpkg system is screwed !!!
I don't know why, the /var/lib/dpkg/status file disapeared after the dramatic apt-get upgrade.
So ALL the functions involving this file (apt-get, dpkg, dpkg --list.....) are not working anymore because they can't read the file !!
I have backups, but they are outdated, since lots of stuff were updated during the apt-get upgrade and they don't seem to work.
Is there a way to rebuild the status file ? I mean I have lots of package installed, isn't there a way for the system to rebuild this file after seing what I have on the system ?
I would like also to have all the dependencies up to date and working.
Is it possible or am I completely dead and have no way to use again the debian package system ?
This is very important.
Thanks,
Donov