Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Yes there is:
>
> [12:36:41 /tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/available
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2547713 Apr 25 00:46 /var/lib/dpkg/available
> [12:39:36 /tmp]$ od -cj 2547700 /var/lib/dpkg/available
> 11557764 c e 9 1 8 0 f a 4 2 d f \n
> 11560001
> [12:39:42 /tmp]$
>
> and
> dpkg -l doc-linux-text
> works too. I do not know what was changed.
No, there is no final new line.
debian-devel1:/# od -cj 5199880 /var/lib/dpkg/available
23654010 r d . \n \n
It looks like the file got truncated. Disk corruption? What apt-cache
dumpavail(called from dselect [2]) interrupted?
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