Re: aptitude upgrade errors
On 01/27/2011 08:13 AM, Kelly Harding wrote:
hi
have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box:
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line
29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number
exim4-config.postinst: [WARN] Installed debconf version is broken.
Aborting preconfigure.
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666
package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666
package 'virtualbox-2.1':
error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number
Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system.
Anyone come across this and know how to fix? or is a system re-install needed?
kelly
Hi,
I have the same problem but with 'desktop-file-utils' and fighting him
for some time on my Squeeze box (other Squeeze box is fine).
What was working for me is deleting block inside /var/lib/dpkg/available
where was mentioning old VirtualBox versions.
Now I have VirtualBox 4 so I was delete in /var/lib/dpkg/available all
previous version of VirtualBox.
Before doing that back up /var/lib/dpkg/available just in case
somethings go wrong.
That solve my problem with 'error in Version string
2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character in revision number'
but 'E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)' is still here.
apt-get purge, apt-get install, dpkg -i desktop-file-utils wasn't
helpful on the end it's always 'E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an
error code (2)'
I think it is possible to solve it without re installation; just didn't
found solution yet :-)
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Goran Dobosevic
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