severity 303030 important thanks On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:04:24PM +0100, Francois wrote: > Hello Scott, > > I still don't know where my problem came from, but I've (temporarily) > solved it with 'dpkg --clear-avail'. Before that dpkg was refusing to > install new packages from deb archives. Strangely enough however > synaptic seemed not to be impacted by the situation. Could it be that > synaptic messed up with dpkg's config file?
Please see my comments in bug#478970. I have also been experiencing this problem sporadically when using aptitude, but it seems that the culprit is dpkg itself. Somehow, dpkg seems to sometimes mess up the formatting of the available file when rewriting it. I don't know when or why this happens, but next time I will keep a copy. Also, yesterday, during the large stable -> testing upgrade, dpkg managed to make the same error with its status file: it lost the beginning of a package section, right up to and including "Depends: " and began the section with the first dependency. The only way to fix it was to manually edit the status file. This seems like quite a serious problem! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
