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.
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# 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)
#
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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?