Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.19 Error messages: ... Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de testing/contrib Sources Fetched 2B in 5s (0B/s) Reading package lists... Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Command executed as root: aptitude update alternate command as root: apt-get update Description: Without any transparent reason, aptitude update fails with no further error messages but the two above. I expect aptitude update to work as normal as before. I contacted lokal support from the LUG-BS and asked at the german debian-user mailinglist with no error correction available but a workaround. The file /var/lib/dpkg/status is available for download from http://www.killerhippy.de/downloads/var_lib_dpkg_status as it is very long to send via email. It does not seem corrupt, nor has it somehow changed its file-rights so it _is_ readable and the error is misleading. One of the LUG-BS could strace the location in the status file when the process fails to continue: It is the otrs section beginning at line 12229. When deleting this sections, the error disappears is the report. I have not yet tried to "repair" or replaced the status file because there are many questions I would like to be answered before, e.g. do the commands mentioned at section 6.3.4 of the debian-referenz recreate orphan information when rebuilding the status file by reinstalling everything used later by aptitude? How to avoid mess with adjusted plain text files which come with a package, e.g. php-files when doing so? Files at /var/backup were identical or much smaller, so I could not take one of them, because I don't know how the system behaves with an incomplete status-file and I would like to have a clean solution. I hope I have hit the right package. Correction or patch: Me is not capable of the c-programming language, so there is none, nor do I know where to begin. Details of the configuration: ---config-details-start--- /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg: # dpkg configuration file # # This file can contain default options for dpkg. All command-line # options are allowed. Values can be specified by putting them after # the option, separated by whitespace and/or an `=' sign. # # Log status changes and actions to a file. log /var/log/dpkg.log /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf: // Pre-configure all packages with debconf before they are installed. // If you don't like it, comment it out. DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";}; /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 999 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 200 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 200 Package: binutils Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1002 /etc/apt/sources.list #deb copy:///cdrom/ sarge main deb ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free #Mplayer deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main # stable-backports deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian stable main # unstable-backports deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ unstable main # nomachine freenx deb http://www.linux.lk/~anuradha/nx/ ./ ---config-details-stop--- Related programms and versions: apt 0.6.42.1 aptitude 0.2.15.9-7 dselect 1.13.17 Kernel-version: Linux fileserver 2.6.8 #4 Thu Nov 10 16:51:34 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Shared-C-Library: Version: 2.3.6-7 Filesystems in use: /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=panic) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda9 on /home type ext3 (rw,errors=panic) /dev/hda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,errors=panic) /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw,errors=panic) /dev/hda7 on /var type ext3 (rw,errors=panic) /dev/hdd1 on /mnt/www type xfs (rw,noatime) /mnt/www/www on /var/www type none (rw,bind) /dev/hdc1 on /mnt/samba type xfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hdc1 on /daten type xfs (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/backup type xfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) capifs on /dev/capi type capifs (rw,mode=0666) /daten/muell/Software on /home/ftp/Software type none (rw,bind) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) Greetings from Braunschweig, Germany Sascha Wuestemann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
