Re: something incredibly amiss in unstable and dpkg
My problem was that /var/lib/dpkg/available had been
corrupted. Not sure how. You can see one aspect of the
problem here:
/etc/cron.daily/dlocate:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line
197755 package `libstdc++2.10':
newline in field name `ü ?'
Anyway, dpkg would fail every time it tried to parse through
the file and so, from the symptoms, I thought dpkg itself
was broken. Instead it was just the file.
I corrected by manually removing the file and then
using dselect to rebuild.
Heitzso
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On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 21:55, Heitzso wrote:
> I run debian unstable i386 and yesterday ran apt-get
> update/upgrade. After which dpkg breaks and cannot
> install anything that is downloaded.
>
> ==> I have not been able to run dpkg to install an
> older, working version of dpkg, of course, because
> dpkg is broken.
>
> That means that, if you hit whatever bad version
> of dpkg I hit (or ?? package that's snarling dpkg)
> you are at least mildly hosed. (i.e. cupsys is
> also currently broken and I cannot install cupsys
> from testing to get my printer working, or switch
> over to another printing system, because those
> packages have to be installed with dpkg, etc.)
>
> Any clues re how to untangle this would be most
> graciously appreciated.
>
> Otherwise -- if you haven't upgraded w/ apt-get
> in awhile and you run unstable I suggest _NOT_
> until others more knowledgeable than I either point
> out the errors of my way or give an "ALL CLEAR"
> sign.
>
> Heitzso
>
>
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