dpkg: serious warning: file list file for package 'package' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed - can't install any packages

[Ryan Pugatch]

Hi all,

Interesting issue.. my machine (thinkpad t61) has had an issue where the 
file system would randomly become read only.  I think it has something 
to do with the machine going in to standby.. it seems to happen shortly 
after waking up.  Anyway, usually after a few times of this happening I 
have to run fsck and then everything is back to normal.  Unfortunately, 
this time, it appears something was really hosed and there were a lot of 
unattached inodes when I ran fsck.  Everything seems fine, though, 
except for the part where I can't install anything with apt.  It seems 
that dpkg thinks that none of my packages are installed.

See: http://paste.ubuntu.com/251393/

In this example, I am attempting to install subversion.

Not really sure what to do at this point.  It would be nice to make it 
work again, otherwise I'll have to reload the machine which I'd like to 
avoid doing.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Ryan Pugatch
Systems Administrator, TripAdvisor