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Package: dselect
Hye,
I have some strange problems with /var/lib/dpkg/available file, because when i
do a "dselect install" it's find an error in this file. But the strange thing
is that the error of the line in this file change all the time, and when i open
this file at the specified line the error has vanished:
- the first try:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 194256 package
`python2.1-oss':
MSDOS EOF (^Z) in field name `Installed-Size'
- the second try:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 145694:
field name `0a' must be followed by colon
- the third try:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 193828 package
`bioperl':
`Recommends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name
expected
...
Could it be an hardwar problem? do you have a solution?
PS: I have try a cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available so but
it's the same problem
thank for your answer.
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--- Begin Message ---
Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo
Hi!
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:56:08 +0200, Damien Desmarets wrote:
> I have some strange problems with /var/lib/dpkg/available file, because when
> i do a "dselect install" it's find an error in this file. But the strange
> thing is that the error of the line in this file change all the time, and
> when i open this file at the specified line the error has vanished:
> - the first try:
>
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 194256 package
> `python2.1-oss':
> MSDOS EOF (^Z) in field name `Installed-Size'
>
> - the second try:
>
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 145694:
> field name `0a' must be followed by colon
>
> - the third try:
>
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 193828 package
> `bioperl':
> `Recommends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name
> expected
>
> ...
>
> Could it be an hardwar problem? do you have a solution?
> PS: I have try a cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available so
> but it's the same problem
This looks like hardware problem to me, either a disk or memory issue,
and I have not seen anything similar reported.
I'm going to close this, but if you can still reproduce it (doubtful
given the age of the report :), please either reopen or file a new bug.
Thanks,
Guillem
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