Re: Re: /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[J Toll <jctoll@gmail.com>]

Thanks, your suggestion basically did the trick, although I did end up
having to remove 3 lines from /var/lib/dpkg/available to get it to work.
It appears as though the file was corrupted.

Regarding your question about disk space, I have plenty, so it's
unlikely that was the cause of the corruption.

In case it would help someone else, here's the beginning of the file and
what I removed to get it to work.

Package: libkrb53
Status: install ok unpacked
Priority: standard
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 988
Maintainer: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: krb5
Version: 1.4.4-5
Config-Version: 1.4.4-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3)
Suggests: krb5-doc, krb5-user
Conflicts: openafs-krb5 (<< 1.3-10), ssh-krb5 (<< 3.8.1p1-10),
libauthen-krb5-perl (<< 1.4-5), libapache-mod-auth-kerb (<=
4.996-5.0-rc6-2), libapache2-mod-auth-kerb (<= 4.996-5.0-rc6-2)
Description: MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
 Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a
network.
 Kerberos is a trusted third-party service.  That means that there is a
 third party (the kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities
on
 the network (users and services, usually called "principals").
 .
 This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos5.
 .
 This package contains the runtime libraries used by applications and
 Kerberos clients.
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@  (etc.)





I ended up having to remove these lines:
Status: install ok unpacked
Config-Version: 1.4.4-4
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@   (etc.)