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Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status



Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed
> complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file.
> 
> =====
> # apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 package
> `python-4suite-xml':
>  package has status installed but triggers are awaited
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> #
> =====
> 
> How can I fix this? I am unable to use dpkg at all as every invocation
> spits out the above error message.
You can starting by reporting a bug against dpkg with the above info. Dpkg
developers may suggest you a recipe to handle this.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor

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