broken package libgdu0
PaulCarter
PaulEG.Carter at virgin.net
Sun Jun 12 19:53:56 UTC 2011
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 13:56 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 6/12/2011 1:50 PM, PaulCarter wrote:
> > unable to open files list file for package `libgdu0'
>
> rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgdu0.list
> apt-get clean
> apt-get install --reinstall libgud0
>
> If it can't find /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgdu0.list then search the folder.
>
Yeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh! Nice one. Thank you so much.
That list file had become a block device file!!
brwsr----x 1 19946 48669 0, 0 1970-01-01
01:00 /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgdu0.list
Very curious.
Removed, cleaned, reinstalled and Update-manager did its work with no
further problem.
Might be worth flagging up an fdisk for next reboot.
I'll continue to study the package infrastructure and hopefully be able
to help someone else at a later date.
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