broken package libgdu0

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 20:53 +0100, PaulCarter wrote:
> 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.
> 

This has gone into "THE SECRET NOTES" yeppers! Coolbeans! (now I should
feel safe when breaking my own systems, right? Hehehhehehehe)


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