On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:55:18AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >David Primero Segundo wrote: > > > >>Hello friends, i am very sad because my system debian is instable. When > >>i run: apt-get upgrade or when i run aptitude to install or remove or > >>upgrade a package, or when i use dpkg, debia answer me the next: > >>http://pastebin.ca/392151, please i don't know to do i need help you. > >> > > > >Sorry to say this: That error is an i/o error. It looks to me like you > >may have a hard disk problem. > > > > > > > > > As very little information is given by the original poster it could also > be that both apt-get and dpkg are choking on a single package that has > become corrupted too. > > In the link below there is a very similar problem and how the guy fixed > it on his machine, but it is rather involved. > > http://www.eskimo.com/~c/blog/archive/2003-05.html > > Scroll down to the entry for May 8, 2003 to find the problem defined and > solution found.
I was installing a coupla pkgs on a Sid machine in last coupla days when for some unknown reason the '/var/lib/dpkg/status' file got corrupted. Somehow a package name had a ')' character instead of an 'i' character. The error msgs were reasonably helpful. I can't remember the command (sorry) which basically said "... parse error for file /var/lib/dpkg/status ')' character illegal in package name at line 31645" I don't know if the above links, I haven't looked, are relative to this anonomolly. I haven't reported a bug but if it happens again I may consider it. -- Chris. ====== Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once etch goes stable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
