Bug#168154: marked as done (dpkg: available got corrupted: empty file details field `MD5sum')
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Package: dpkg
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Just installed new tetex packages, and got this error just before
after the unpack phase:
Unpacking replacement tetex-bin ...
Preparing to replace tetex-doc 1.0.2+20000804-9 (using
.../tetex-doc_1.0.2+20011202-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tetex-doc ...
Preparing to replace tetex-extra 1.0.2+20000804-9 (using
.../tetex-extra_1.0.2+20011202-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tetex-extra ...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/spool/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 9611
package `tetex-extra':
empty file details field `MD5sum'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
I fixed the problem by totally deleting the offending MD5sum line,
which appeared to be of the form:
MD5sum: \n
(I.e. a single space before the newline).
Until the problem was fixed, dpkg was unrunnable (bombed out when
trying to read the available file).
I have kept the broken available file if anyone wants it.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pear 2.4.0 #4 Thu Mar 8 12:57:53 GMT 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:50:51 +0000
From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: dpkg: available got corrupted: empty file details field `MD5sum'
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This is a duplicate of the now ancient 113961 that somehow didn't get
merged; fixed in 1.9.18.
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