Re: [PLUG] Apache startup error in Debian

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Michael Leone wrote:
> Bill Jonas said:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:40:12PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks; I appreciate it. And since I took that file off another
> > > Debian-based box I'd think that standard Debian is to have a file, and
> > > not a symlink.
> >
> > Just thought of this right after I sent the last one -- why don't you
> > try something like "apt-get install --reinstall libc6 libdb2"?
> > Actually, that might not even be necessary seeing as how there's a new
> > libc6 on security.d.o today.
>
>
> No, I'm thinking I'm not gonna apt-get upgrade that machine for a little
> while. Leave well enough alone for a little bit; let the bugs shake out 
> ... :-)

I have occasionally (well, twice) seen similar problems to this on my 
machine (debian unstable). Some program is behaving strangely (or failing 
to run). I track it down to a missing file (last time it was the ldd 
program binary). Dpkg -L <packagename> will report that the file is 
supposed to be there (I can only assume that it failed to install when the 
package last upgraded, rather than dissapearing quietly in the night), 
according to the cached package file in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

Doing (as Bill suggested) 'apt-get install --reinstall <packagename>' has 
always worked for me as a way of getting the missing file _really_ 
installed (Just fyi, since you seem to have fixed it manually).

If you want to check that you don't have any other packages with 
"disappeared" files, you can run the 'debsums' program, which compares the 
 list of files (and their MD5 sums) in the package cache to the actual 
files on your drive.

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman

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