I have the same problem running Feisty 7.10 on a custom-built Intel Pentium D. I was using apt-get autoremove to clean out uneeded packages when my system crashed and I had to restart; I've been having problems with my hard drive (Western Digital Raptor / WDC WD1500ADFD-0 Version: 20.0) and fsck revealed a lot of bad sectors, so I'm pretty sure that the file did in fact get corrupted when I had to reset my system during apt-get's operation. Here is my error message (the 'available' file (889K) is attached as well; there is binary code at the end and in the middle, so I'm going to restore the file from backup and see what happens):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux freerick-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install clamav Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: lha clamav-docs The following NEW packages will be installed: clamav 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/874kB of archives. After unpacking 1323kB of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: field name `79435.442510]' must be followed by colon Running prelink, please wait... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) ** Attachment added: "/var/lib/dpkg/available' -- corrupted" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7640913/available.gz -- Bogus chars in "available" file after upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64012 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
