[Linux-disciples] apt-get problems

[Adam Kessel]

Ditto everything Dylan said--

and after *that* you should probably do some checking to see if your hard
drive is failing.  After what we went through with bostoncoop.net the
last few days, you should catch hardware failure in the nub.

There are various utilities that can test your disk, and also you should
keep an eye on /var/log/syslog--try grepping through the past few weeks
of syslog files for your hard drive (presumably hda)--and see if there is
some failure happening...

This could also be due to suspend/resume, if you're doing that.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:25:56PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:11:40PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:01:37PM -0400, Nirmal Trivedi wrote:
> > > I ran fsck which did fix all kinds of broken inodes (?), but it looks
> > > like that process also removed /usr/sbin/install-info. The file no
> > > longer exists, which also means I cannot run dpkg or apt-get install.
> > 
> > That sucks. Does anyone know of a way to bootstrap onesself
> > into dpkg, short of just sending along a tarball of all the
> > dpkg files with all the metadata inside?
> 
> A .deb is an ar file which in turn contains some .tar.gz files.  To open
> it up:
> 
> -------
> dpt at lotus:/tmp/dpkg$ ar xvf /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.10.20_i386.deb 
> x - debian-binary
> x - control.tar.gz
> x - data.tar.gz
> dpt at lotus:/tmp/dpkg$ tar xvfz data.tar.gz 
> ./
> ./usr/
> ./usr/share/
> ./usr/share/doc/
> ./usr/share/doc/dpkg/
> ./usr/share/doc/dpkg/THANKS.gz
> ./usr/share/doc/dpkg/TODO.gz
> ./usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.gz
> ./usr/share/doc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
> ......
> ------
> 
> So you should grab a copy of your version of dpkg (say, from
> packages.debian.org), open it up, grab /usr/sbin/install-info, and then
> reinstall dpkg the proper way (dpkg -i <dpkg deb>).
> 
> You might also want to install debsums to check if you had any other
> disk corruption.
> 
> Peace,
> 	Dylan



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