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Re: inconstency in /var/lib/dpkg/available after fsck manual



On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 05:33:23PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:07:26PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > 
> > > If you see any corruption, tell me where.
> > >
> > > As the error message says: value for `status' field not allowed in this context
> > > I was rather asking on this list, what value Status: is supposed to contain.
> > 
> > Status is not allowed at all in available.
> > 
> > To fix this:
> > 
> > : > /var/lib/dpkg/available
> 
> And then you'll probably want to:
> 
> dselect update
> 
> To re-populate it.

OK, done. Thanks !

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