On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Faheem Mitha <fah...@email.unc.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm getting the following error on upgrade (debian Lenny). As suggested by > the error message, there is some funny stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/available in > the kdebase package section. > > Is this is a known issue? If not, can anyone suggest how to debug this? For > the record, I've being using and adminstering Debian since 2001, and don't > recall having ever seen an error like this before. > > Please CC me on any reply. Thanks. > > Regards, Faheem Mitha. > > merlin:/home/faheem# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages have been kept back: > linux-image-2.6-686 > The following packages will be upgraded: > base-files bind9-host dnsutils firmware-iwlwifi gdm gtk2-engines-pixbuf > imagemagick libbind9-40 libdns45 libgtk2.0-0 > libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 liblwres40 > libmagick10 libpam-modules libpam-runtime > libpam0g libpq5 libsmbclient libvolume-id0 libwbclient0 linux-libc-dev > openoffice.org openoffice.org-base > openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common > openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw > openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-gcj > openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk > openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common > openoffice.org-math > openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin > openoffice.org-style-andromeda > openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-writer postgresql postgresql-8.3 > postgresql-client-8.3 python-uno > texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-extra-doc > texlive-generic-extra texlive-humanities > texlive-humanities-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc > texlive-math-extra texlive-pstricks > texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-publishers texlive-publishers-doc > ttf-opensymbol udev xserver-xorg-core > xserver-xorg-video-savage > 67 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/331MB of archives. > After this operation, 3119kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > Extracting templates from packages: 100% > Preconfiguring packages ... > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 11824 package > `kdebase': > `Recommends' field, reference to `kdm': version contains ` '
It seems like /var/lib/dpkg/available is corrupt ? Does aptitude update help ? If not, 'dpkg --clear-avail' , could help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
