On 05-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: > dpkg is giving me an error which I am unable to fix. Is this a bug? > > lilypad:/home/pollywog#dpkg --configure -a > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0012' near line 1: > newline in field name `#padding'
I figured it out. The configuration script tries to start bind without stopping it first, and that messes everything up. I stopped bind and then ran the script and all went well. The dpkg error has gone away. -- Andrew