smart crashes on startup

Thank you for the report, but this is not a launchpad bug, re-assigning to Ubuntu.
We're interested in why you accidentally recorded this bug as occurring in launchpad instead of ubuntu. If you can explain what happened, please let us know in bug 88818.

Hello,

could you please provide the following pieces of information?

- dpkg -l smartpm-core
- smart --version
- cat /etc/lsb-release
- sudo ls -la /var/lib/dpkg
- sudo smart update

If you are running intrepid, then please substitute the above smart command paths with /usr/share/smart/smart instead of just "smart", because in Intrepid the command is not in PATH.

drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 25 2008 .
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Jan 5 03:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2008 alternatives
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2008 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Apr 26 2008 lock
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 25 2008 methods
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2008 parts
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 26 2008 status
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 25 2008 updates

I don't know how your status entry got to be a directory instead of a file. Did you had a crash recently and had to run fsck on that filesystem?

 Here is how my listing looks like:
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K 2009-01-12 14:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 60 root root 4.0K 2009-01-07 18:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-01-07 17:57 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M 2009-01-12 14:01 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M 2009-01-12 14:01 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 2008-12-26 21:58 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 703 2009-01-07 09:55 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 601 2009-01-07 09:55 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 256K 2009-01-12 14:01 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2009-01-12 14:01 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-09-03 09:03 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233 2009-01-05 17:39 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193 2009-01-05 17:39 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M 2009-01-12 14:01 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M 2009-01-12 14:01 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-01-12 13:31 triggers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-01-12 14:01 updates

What are the contents of your /var/lib/dpkg/status directory?

Is apt-get working on your system? Try "sudo apt-get update", and perhaps install some dummy package just to exercise dpkg.

Also, you didn't get me this info, or I didn't find it in your email:

- cat /etc/lsb-release
- dpkg -l smartpm-core

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!