Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

[Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz>]

Sorry Joostie, it did not work. Same result.

At the moment it looks as if I have a de-facto 'stable' system,
frozen at a moment in its ['unstable'] development path.

Adam.

> In article <[🔎] 40274007.4040704@paradise.net.nz>, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> > Hi, I'm running unstable and have not been able to do a successful
> > 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing' for 2-3 weeks now.  That is a big
> > backlog in unstable.
> >
> > The key message seems to be
> >
> >> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> >
> > 'apt-get update' gives me the message
> >
> >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirror.pacific.net.au
> >> unstable/main Packages
> >>
> +(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.pacific.net.au_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)>> 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> >> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> >> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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> If te package file /var/lib/dpkg/status really is messed up,
> not much is going to work. Do you still have a file in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status-old ?
> If so, make a copy of it in some safe place (and also of

> any messed-up /var/lib/dpkg/status file), and then maybe try
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> cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
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> and run again. I don't know what you can do if you really don't
> have a status file any more.
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> joostje
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