Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.23 Severity: normal dpkg fails complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file.
# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 package `python-4suite-xml': package has status installed but triggers are awaited E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) # The relevant portion of apt's term.log: ==== Log started: 2008-11-21 18:34:54 (Reading database ... 283360 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.14.22 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.14.23_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... Log ended: 2008-11-21 18:35:26 Log started: 2008-11-21 18:36:06 dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 package `python -4suite-xml': package has status installed but triggers are awaited Log ended: 2008-11-21 18:36:07 ==== Following the error, dpkg is unusable with every invocation resulting in the above error. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
