dsl-dpkg.dsl doesn't load properly

Forum: Apt-get
Topic: dsl-dpkg.dsl doesn't load properly
started by: robertakit

Posted by Guest on June 13 2007,21:53

I get lots of

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/var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
/var/lib/dpkg/parts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
...
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

when starting up DSL. It seems to coincide with dsl-dpkg.dsl getting loaded.

I tried adding

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var/lib/dpkg

to my .filetool.lst file, but it still gets the errors. ('Though, interestingly, /var/lib/dpkg does exist after everything gets booted.)

What is the canonical/preferred way of doing this? I would assume that there were an "apt" cheatcode, but I don't see one documented.

Thanks.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 13 2007,22:34

Are you using DSL or DSL-N?

Posted by Guest on June 13 2007,22:37

Plain ol' DSL.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 13 2007,22:58

hmm, maybe a corrupted download? md5sum?

Posted by Guest on June 16 2007,23:27

I don't think it's a corrupted download. Everything else works.

I have a feeling it has something to do with this line in dpkg-restore:

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sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg

Does the /var/lib/dpkg directory get recreated as a writeable one after mkwriteable is called?