Re: Strange events...
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Roberto Giorgetti wrote:
> I am a little worried about my system (Debian stable on ULTRA 5).
>
> I have been experiencing for about three months a corruption on file
> /var/lib/dpkg/available.
>
> When I install/upgrade, apt-get stops saying that in this file at
> line XXXXX there is a forbidden character (usually `) instead of the
> normal character.
>
> Usually I solve the problem editing the file /var/lib/dpkg/available,
> going to that line and replacing the ` with the right character (guessing it!).
I've had a similar problem a while ago with the dpkg status file. In my
case it was caused by bad RAM. Have you tried memtest86 ?
Frank
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