On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:33:16PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > In any case, I decided to go and attempt the upgrade, and have run into
> > the following problem now when attempting to use apt-get or dpkg or
> > aptitude:
> >
> > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41026
> > package `libstring-approx-perl':
> > field name `Sectch' must be followed by colon
> >
> > I'm kinda in a catch-22, since even dpkg -l will abort with that error,
> > nor can I seem to install or remove packages, as that error will come
> > up.
>
> Have you tried just removing the offending line? Or removing the whole section
> related to libstring-approx-perl (it doesn't really look like a critical
> package anyway)?
OK, I didn't originally realize that the error was in the database file.
I thought it was an issue with the version of the library. I deleted
that entry from the file and sure enough, no more errors.
> I guess dpkg will just re-add it during the next `apt-get update'
run, but
> hopefully the real problem is fixed at that time. Upgrading dpkg and apt-get
> is
> probably also needed.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
Thanks,
--Lance
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