Bug#374560: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sascha Wüstemann <sascha@killerhippy.de>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:53:22PM +0200 or thereabouts, Nicolas François wrote:
> reassign 374560 apt
> thanks
> 
> Hello Sascha,
> 
> According to your status file, you are using apt 0.6.42.1.
> 
> If I understand correctly, this bug is in apt, and was fixed by apt
> 0.6.44. Sascha, can you check?
> 
> You can probably fix this problem by downloading the apt package from a
> debian server [0], and install it with dpkg -i <apt_...>.deb.
> You should be able to use aptitude again afterwards.
> 
> 
> apt maintainers:
>  * FYI, the status file (link in the original file) contains a package
>    whose data are more than 32k.
>  * BTW, you can probably also close #276060, which looks like the same issue
>    (fixed with #350025)
> 
> [0] for example from:
>     ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.6.44.2_i386.deb
> 

Hi Nekral,

I have done as you said:

fileserver:~# dpkg -i apt_0.6.44.2_i386.deb 
(Lese Datenbank ... 74067 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von apt 0.6.42.1 (durch apt_0.6.44.2_i386.deb) ...
Entpacke Ersatz für apt ...
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von apt:
 apt hängt ab von libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0); aber:
  Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.0.3-1.
 apt hängt ab von libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0); aber:
  Version of libstdc++6 on system is 4.0.3-1.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von apt (--install):
 Abhängigkeitsprobleme - lasse es unkonfiguriert
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 apt

fileserver:~# aptitude update
aptitude: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so I decided to keep installing via dpkg the missing packages:

ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.1/gcc-4.1-base_4.1.0-4_i386.deb
ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.1/libgcc1_4.1.0-4_i386.deb
ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-4.1/libstdc++6_4.1.0-4_i386.deb

and as the shared lib error stayed afterwards, I copied
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.10.0 from another host to
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.10

Now I am done, I thought. But aptitude update gave the same error as before.
Humpf, so I gave apt-get update a try - lucky. After this successful update I
tried aptitude update again: Also successful now.

Strange is that /var/lib/dpkg was not yet altered in any way.
I verified by dpkg -l that the package version state of the new packages was
not updated.

So now the package information system has the state before/while the apt error
with some new files in the system, which don't make trouble and will be 
overwritten in the near future when their package is updated, right? -
Do you agree that there is no need to deinstall the handmade
installations?

Seems to me as if the error was resolved. Not so easy but luckily.

Thank you for your help.
I am going to make an aptitude upgrade and when everything is alright, I
will close the bug and the other one, too.

cu
Sascha