This bug broke my upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04
The upgrade rebooted, but packages (like grub) weren't successfully upgraded
because of the parsing error this entry contained.
Adding a '.' in the blank line in the description (in /var/lib/dpkg/status and
/var/lib/dpkg/available) allowed me t
On a eeePC 1000HE, wireless stopped working part way during the upgrade
to 11.10 and did not come back; ifconfig showed no wireless interface,
lshw -c net showed the device as UNCLAIMED.
I just rebooted and chose kernel 2.6.38-11-generic instead of the
latest/default kernel (3.0.0-12-generic), and
