On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:45:29AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? I doubt it. you may have to use apt-get to install a fix but you shouldn't have to reinstall. > > Yesterday aptitude reported > Unable to parse package file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates > This happened on an etch that was just installed the same day from a > previous-day netinstall daily build. > > The file does exist, and appears to be binary gibberish. > There's also a pkgstates.old file, about one minute older, in the same > directory. Should I try replacing pkgstates by pkgstates.old in the > hope that will help? I'm reluctant to do this without some idea just > what role this file plays in aptitude. It doesn't seem to be the > downloaded, consolidated list of available packages, since updating has > no effect on it. might as well try renaming the files, or hiding them all together and see what happens. I can't see that it will hurt, and you can always move them back. A
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