On Sunday 07 January 2007 17:14, J Toll wrote: > Hi, > > For the past few weeks I've been unable to upgrade any packages. The > process fails with the following message. I can't tell if this is a > problem with dpkg, debconf, or libkrb53. Any suggestions on how to ...
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 2 > package `libkrb53': > value for `status' field not allowed in this context Personally I would go and explore the file mentioned and look for corruption. It seems to imply line 2 so it should be near the beginning. Perhaps there is a blank line or something near the beginning. Did you run out of disk space sometime recently? There should be a /var/lib/dpkg/available-old file too (at least I have one) Disclaimer: I don't know what I am talking about. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
