[NCLUG] deb q.

[dmiles]

wow, that's a strange one.

The only thing I can think of is a bad download... It sounds like it some section to be smaller than it is, try getting it again?

After that I'm stumped

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 23:29:42 -0700 (MST), Kennan Blehm <kmblehm at sigkill.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I have a small dillemma. I was upgrading a ton of packages and when it
> gets around to unpacking libc6_2.2.4-5, apt-get  fails with this error:
> 
>  unable to stat `./usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Douala' (which I was about to
> install): Value too large for defined data type
> 
> then when I look at that file I get a:
> 
> anvar:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa# less Douala
> Douala: Input/output error
> 
> anvar:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa# ls -l Douala
> ls: Douala: Input/output error
> l-wSr-s---  65390 3705339821 4294203706 4294569439 Oct 31  1969 Douala
> 
> Can anybody shed some light on this. I'm stumped. All of the other files
> seem fine in that dir, except for one other which reads:
> 
> anvar:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa# ls -l Bangui
> cr----xr--  65413 1548025654 4285821771 132, 108 Oct 27  1969 Bangui
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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