Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to
delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to
back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
Anyway, the most pressing problem at the moment is that apt fails, due
to missing status data:
E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or
directory)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
How do I recover from this?
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A daily backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status is maintained by the system in
/var/backups. Has this directory survived your accident?
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07-14-2011, 12:22 PM
Tony van der Hoff
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On 14/07/11 13:06, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
A daily backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status is maintained by the system in
/var/backups. Has this directory survived your accident?
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it hasn't.
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Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to
delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to
back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
For the archives, there is a useful script at
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html
which scans the /usr/share/doc directory for installed packages, and
rebuilds the database from that.
Don't know yet how fully it's fixed, but it looks like I've got most of
the database back; apt and synaptic at least are working ... phew!
Cheers, Tony
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Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to
delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to
back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
For the archives, there is a useful script at
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html
which scans the /usr/share/doc directory for installed packages, and
rebuilds the database from that.
Don't know yet how fully it's fixed, but it looks like I've got most of
the database back; apt and synaptic at least are working ... phew!
Cheers, Tony
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:44 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived
> to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never
> thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
>
> Anyway, the most pressing problem at the moment is that apt fails,
> due to missing status data:
>
> E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file
> or directory)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> How do I recover from this?
Uh, tough one. You can try the following which relies on the fact that every
package install documentation in /usr/share/doc/PKG and will reinstall all
those packages:
On Jo, 14 iul 11, 11:44:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived
> to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never
> thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
Just for the archives: /var is not transient, but variable data.
Transient would be the new /run and /tmp, which is why they can be put
on tmpfs
Regards,
Andrei
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