Re: Upgrade to Testing "Reading package lists... Error!"

[Brian <kimhick@yahoo.com>]

Well, I am going to answer my own question on this one.  I started editing the /var/lib/dpkg/status file and just saw crazy things.  Instead of "Package:" I would see "Rackage:".  Instead of "Status: purge ok not-installed". I would see "Status: purge oj not installed:.  And in some places I would just see nonsensical charterers.  Then I started seeing SIGTERM notifications coming across the screen.  

So, it looks like I had a bad or going bad RAM chip.  I replace that copied my /var/lib/dpkg/status-old file over to status and re-ran aptitude with out any problems.

Looks like I am OJ now.