Package: upgrade-reports Version: 9 Severity: grave Followed the Debian 9 release notes to upgrade a jessie i386 (686) machine to stretch. No apt sources except official debian ones. Following the apt-get dist-upgrade step, attempts to use apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude produce the following error:
# apt-get update Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease Ign:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Get:3 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [62.9 kB] Hit:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release Fetched 62.9 kB in 1s (38.2 kB/s) Reading package lists... Error! E: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (22: Invalid argument) E: Could not open file - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Problem opening E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. Error persists after reboot of the system. However, dpkg -l and similar still work. The /var/lib/dpkg structure appears to be intact: $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg total 6904 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 16:39 alternatives -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1379057 Apr 28 2015 available -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1361618 Apr 28 2015 available-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Feb 20 2006 cmethopt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 953 Jul 7 15:54 diversions -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1034 Jul 7 15:54 diversions-old drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 339968 Jul 7 16:03 info -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 7 16:44 lock -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 2006 methlock drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 7 2011 methods drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 26 2005 parts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 460 Jul 7 16:40 statoverride -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 421 Jul 7 16:40 statoverride-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1961225 Jul 7 16:44 status -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1961225 Jul 7 16:44 status-old drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 16:43 triggers drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 7 16:44 updates I am using Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-pre-patch-13 and libc6 2.1.3-10. Earlier in the week, I did a similar upgrade on another system with same hardware and didn't experience a problem.
