On 2008-11-21 18:12 +0100, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg > failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' > file. > > ===== > # apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 > package `python-4suite-xml': > package has status installed but triggers are awaited > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > # > ===== > > How can I fix this? I am unable to use dpkg at all as every invocation > spits out the above error message. > > Any info/pointers would be helpful.
I think you've hit another instance of bug #487637ยน. This is supposed to be fixed in dpkg 1.14.21, which version of dpkg is installed on your system? Sven http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487637 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
