on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 02:41:11PM -0800, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Benj wrote: > > Reading database ... dpkg: error processing php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb (--install): > > files list file for package `kernel-image-2.2.17' is missing final newline > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > php4_4.0.3pl1-4.deb > > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > > You seem to have some significant corruption going on in your dpkg > database. The file in question is > /var/lib/dpkg/info/kernel-image-2.2.17.list > > Removing the file (or fixing it so it has a final newline) and > reinstalling kernel-image-2.2.17 may fix this.
Note that these sorts of problems, particularly if they're frequently occuring, may be symptomatic of other underlying problems -- bad hard drive, memory, or networking hardware, perhaps. If you notice this sort of thing regularly, I'd start digging deeper. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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