Re: dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	Looks like your status file has been corrupted. First, copy
 the status file to a safe place (% cp -a /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/.)
 Then look for line 12376 (using your favourite editor). I don't use
 quota, so I can't help with the spcifics; but what has happened is
 that some thing that should lokk like this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Package: quota
Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional
Section: admin
 [...]
Conffiles:
 /some/file/name 4cb6de6e2e2f1350b0410cf1e47ff05b
----------------------------------------------------------------------

	Now looks like (with the addition of a newline, maybe?)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Package: quota
Status: install ok installed

Priority: optional
Section: admin
 [...]
Conffiles:
 /some/file/name 
4cb6de6e2e2f1350b0410cf1e47ff05b
----------------------------------------------------------------------

	Concatenate the lines, and things should get better. If this
 is confusing, please show us lines 12356-12396 from
 /var/lib/dpkg/status, and we'll take a stab at cleaning up the file
 for you.

	manoj

-- 
 "I just couldn't convince Texans that Dukakis was Greek for Bubba."
 Lloyd Benson
Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .