Re: aptitude upgrade errors
On 27 January 2011 09:37, Wolodja Wentland <wolodja.wentland@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +0000, 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
>
> [...]
>
>> 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?
>
> The easiest way is to restore that file from your backups.
>
> Don't have any? Make some now and: No problem (in this particular
> case) because the system kept some for you.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> /var/backups/dpkg.status.*
>
> The file named "dpkg.status.0" should be identical to the original
> status file.
>
> There is also /var/lib/dpkg/status.old and other older versions in
> /var/backups/, but I would just move the corrupted file somewhere else,
> and copy /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 over instead.
>
> Does that solve your problem?
I've used diff on all the backups of dpkg.status (all 7) and theres no
difference relating to virtualbox-2.1 in them. the last backup
(dpkg.status.0) is identical to dpkg.status.
I'm at a loss with this.
kelly
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