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[Bill Pringlemeir]

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[Bill Pringlemeir (bpringlemeir)]

Hmm. I was attempting to make an ARM based 'initramfs' system. I did a 'cpio -idv' and this trashed a bunch of files in my system. I had to download the '.deb' packages and force a re-install. This got my system working. I ran through the directories associated with the 'initramfs' to ensure all the files were replaced, however, I might have missed on.

Is there anything in dpkg/apt-get/etc like 'rpm -q --verify' that gives md5sums of all installed binaries?

[Bill Pringlemeir (bpringlemeir)]

The 'cpio' extract happened several days ago. However, the klibc package included 'dash'. I went through all the directories from my cpio and then used '/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list' to find the package responsible for the files. Then I used apt-get to download only and then used dpkg to force a re-install. It is quite possible that this is responsible (or maybe I have some strange multilib package). How does one do,

  dpkg: error processing dash (--configure):
  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
  reinstall it before attempting configuration.

Like, what command should I run? 'apt-get --force dash'?

[Bill Pringlemeir (bpringlemeir)]

'apt-get install --reinstall dash' worked without issues. I had also over-written 'lsmod' and not fixed it.
Please close this bug.