Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status
On 2008-11-21 18:12 +0100, 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.
>
> Any info/pointers would be helpful.
I think you've hit another instance of bug #487637¹. This is supposed
to be fixed in dpkg 1.14.21, which version of dpkg is installed on your
system?
Sven
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487637
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