On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-11-22 18:22 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 
> > The weird thing is that it looks like that only dpkg 1.14.23
> > causes you trouble and not 1.14.22. But the code that deals with
> > lonely Triggers-Awaited dates back to Mon Aug 11 (commit
> > 587b8d8696cb92a4a18901085db033d44bfe6f32) and dpkg 1.14.21.
> > I don't see what changes could explain that the error now gets noticed
> > when it wasn't before. And the package that had those fields were not
> > recently updated either.
> >
> > I can certainly get a failure with 1.14.22 if I add Triggers-Awaited
> > fields to packages that are marked as installed. So how is it possible
> > that you were using dpkg 1.14.22 without troubles yesterday and that now
> > you have a borked status file exactly when you upgrade to 1.14.23…
> 
> There is another strange thing in Raj's dpkg log: packages never entered
> a state of triggers-awaited or triggers-pending.

Right, Raj, did you configure apt in any strange way? Did you activate
the DPkg::NoTriggers option for example?

Please check /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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