Mike Leone on Sun, 17 Nov 2002 15:44:29 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Weird APT error message


Stephen Gran (steve@lobefin.net) had this to say on 11/17/02 at 13:30: 

> And, back to Mike - if it's 'just' the /usr/ partition trashed, it may

Haven't seen errors from any others. I'm thinking filesystem corruption,
because I had to do a "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" a number of times, until
it finally finished. It kept "aborting".

Here's a weird addendum - I mounted a spare hard drive (also formatted as
reiserfs), and did a "(cd /home/turgon && tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt && tar xvfp
-)" - which, BTW, was something Gabe pointed out to me about 2 yrs ago, when I had
other kinds of hard drive problems :-). Twice I got a kernel panic (I forgot
to write down exactly where; "file-something.c", I think it was). This was
on kernel 2.4.19. Needed a hard reset.

I booted into 2.4.16, and the copy at least finished, altho with errors. I'm
going to try cleaning out my home directory first; then reformatting that
drive as ext2, and trying again.

> be salvable if you can get dpkg --get-selections to spit out to a file.

It can.

> You can try booting with the rescue CD, reformatting that partition, and
> reading back in your package selections with a combination of dpkg
> --set-selections and apt-get install --reinstall.  Painful, but it may
> be easier than a full reinstall.

How can I do that from the rescue CD shell? I'm not visualizing this set of
steps properly.

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