Re: using dpkg

["rod peters" <petersr@uniserve.com>]

>> 
>> my version of dpkg is:
>> 1.4.0.23.2
>
>Hmmm... same version as me.
>
>I wonder if your status file is fubarred.
>Can you read it? "less /var/lib/dpkg/status"
>
>You should have a backup copy of it at /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
>that can be used to replace status if it is corrupted.
>
>Also, make sure you don't have a hung process accessing it somewhere.
>"ps auwx |grep dpkg"
>
>-Mitch
>
first of all, ps auwx |grep dpkg says:
root   189  0.0  1.1  856  352  1  s  14:59 0:00 grep dpkg

I replaced status with status-old and got the same results.

Is it possible my libc6 is buggered?

rod.