Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:42:30PM +0530, 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
...
> 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)
> =====
I did not investigated this one. I will suggest to read:
* http://bugs.debian.org/python-4suite-xml (I see no bugs)
* http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#fixingbrokenpackagescript
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