Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

From: Conrad Newton (conrad.newton_at_broadpark.no)
Date: 09/10/04

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    >From Carlos Sousa on Monday, 2004-09-06 at 22:38:14 +0100:
    > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote:
    > [...]
    > > It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even
    > > relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems
    > > here with tetex-base. When I try to correct the problem,
    > > I get a system crash or even trigger a reboot.
    > >
    > > The system is a mixture of testing and unstable (pinned to
    > > testing, but with several major applications upgraded).
    > > I have had numerous instabilities lately, and thought
    > > that I might improve the situation by upgrading to
    > > unstable (my unstable box works just fine), but instead
    > > things look worse than ever . . .
    > >
    > > For example, I was just going to try the following
    > >
    > > apt-get -f install
    > > dpkg --configure -a
    > >
    > > but already at the first step, I get a reboot!!!????!!!
    > > What could be causing this?
    >
    > Sure smells a lot like hardware trouble (memory?). Better be
    > ready with your backups...

    I believe I have found the trouble: corruption of the reiserfs.
    Of course you may be right: that I have reiserfs corruption
    because of bad memory, but I will hope for the best now that
    I have corrected the problem.

    I finally got the box to crash with an error message:

    vs-500: unknown uniqueness 1684368227

    google sent me directly to issues of reiserfs corruption.
    The box was fixed with a knoppix CD and

    reiserfsck --check /dev/hda3
    reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda3

    Conrad 

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