On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > Yes there is: > > [12:36:41 /tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/available > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2547713 Apr 25 00:46 > /var/lib/dpkg/available > [12:39:36 /tmp]$ od -cj 2547700 /var/lib/dpkg/available > 11557764 c e 9 1 8 0 f a 4 2 d f \n > 11560001 > [12:39:42 /tmp]$ > > and > dpkg -l doc-linux-text > works too. I do not know what was changed.
No, there is no final new line. debian-devel1:/# od -cj 5199880 /var/lib/dpkg/available 23654010 r d . \n \n It looks like the file got truncated. Disk corruption? What apt-cache dumpavail(called from dselect [2]) interrupted?