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Re: Upgrade Problem



On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Russell Hires wrote:
> Well folks, after my nightly "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" for 
> woody, I get the following error message:
> 
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 9234 package 
> `xfonts-75dpi':
>  empty file details field `MD5sum'
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
> What should I do about this? For the moment, I've got 18 packages not 
> installed or removed...If there is more information required, please let me 
> know.

How much free space is there on /var?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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