Re: UNSTABLE USERS: dpkg, doc-linux-html, and MD5sum fields
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:14:54AM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote:
> >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> Colin> I'm getting three or four reports a day about errors like
> Colin> this: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'
> Colin> near line 88004 package doc-linux-html': empty file details
> Colin> field `MD5sum' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
> Colin> code (2)
>
> I was bit by this. my 'solution' was to delete the offending MD5Sum
> line from /var/lib/dpkg/availble. this seemed to work OK for me, but
> YMMV.
Yes, that will work too, or 'dselect update' as I said later in the
mail which is probably simpler.
Like I said, we don't need any more suggestions of workarounds. :)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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