On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:30:45PM +1000, Peter Parkes wrote: > After running KPackage yesterday (I just wanted a look), I am now having > problems with dpkg and apt. I am getting an error; Unable to parse status > file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1).
Ouch.
> I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion from having a similar problem (yes
> I
> do know it could probably be all sorts of things) or if someone could tell me
> a bit about what this file should actually look like (permissions, content,
> etc) or some thoughts on why dpkg cannot parse it.
Perhaps a diff between /var/lib/dpkg/status and one of
/var/backups/dpkg.status* would help you here. At least it should reveal
the last few changes to /var/lib/dpkg/status.
HTH
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