Re: Apt error (tried other mailing list & Google), please help!

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, GuidoZ wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Panu. I suspect the install was damaged somehow
> due to the upgrades done by YaST. Here's the result of the command you
> mentioned:
> 
> linux-box:/home/guidoz # ls -l /bin/rpm /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    18700 2004-04-05 16:39 /bin/rpm
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 21417984 2004-09-21 13:06 /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> 
> Looks like /bin/rpm hasn't been touched, but the 2nd one has been
> changes recently. I first noticed the problem (as I said previously)
> the night of the 18th. It was working perfectly up until I did those
> updates. (All updated packages were listed in my last email.)

It's perfectly normal for the Packages file to change - in fact it'd be 
very worrisome if it didn't after updating some packages since that's the 
rpm database! :) 

However .. the fact that /bin/rpm is where it should be, this leaves us 
with the question why is apt failing to find it (and thus realize this is 
an rpm system and everything is ok). Please run
'strace -estat64 apt-get update' and post the entire output of that, it 
should help finding out what the heck it's looking for. (one possibility 
is that apt's own configuration is telling it to look elsewhere for rpm)

> 
> I'm more then ready to start from scratch if that would be the best
> way. What's the best way to go about removing everything so a
> reinstall will work again? I didn't have any problems making it work
> after the initial install.

Nah, this aint a reason for reinstall, it's just some silly glitch in 
configuration someplace. We'll find it out ...

	- Panu -