[plug] Problem Restoring System Suffering from ext3 corruption

[Russell Steicke]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:57:03AM -0400, Tim White wrote:
> I had an unfortunate event with an ext3 parition and had 54 files that 
> were corrupted. I am slowly discovering them and fixing them. (The first 
> ones I needed to fix where hosts and hostname)
> I recently ran debsums but am not to sure how well that went. I know 
> that /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm has become corrupt and tried to 
> reinstall debconf. The output is below. I also tried to update debconf. 
> It also failed. I have been able to install other applications though 
> using apt. Can anybody suggest how I can fix this? Is it possible to 
> extract that file out of the .deb and overwrite the old file?

You can use dpkg-deb to extract files out of a deb.
``dpkg-deb --help'' will tell you how to do that.



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