Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed > complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. > > ===== > # apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 package > `python-4suite-xml': > package has status installed but triggers are awaited > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > # > ===== > > How can I fix this? I am unable to use dpkg at all as every invocation > spits out the above error message. You can starting by reporting a bug against dpkg with the above info. Dpkg developers may suggest you a recipe to handle this.
-- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor
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