Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

2005-08-14 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:19:04 -0700 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas about how to fix? > > laptop:/home/moseley# apt-get update > Get:1 http://bumby unstable/main Packages [3755kB] > [...] > Fetched 5384kB in 1m14s (72.0kB/s)

Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

2005-08-14 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: > Hi, > > BM> Any ideas about how to fix? > > What about /var/lib/dpkg/available-old? Is it corrupted also? Yes. dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1: field name `ôh²Îñb ' must be followed by colon dpk

Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

2005-08-13 Thread Bob Vloon
Hi, BM> Any ideas about how to fix? What about /var/lib/dpkg/available-old? Is it corrupted also? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg: parse error

2002-05-14 Thread Alex Hunsley
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:32:51PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12078 package > > `cln-dev': > > too many values in file details field `MD5sum' (compared to others) > > Looks like a corrupted available file.

Re: dpkg: parse error

2002-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:32:51PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 12078 package > `cln-dev': > too many values in file details field `MD5sum' (compared to others) Looks like a corrupted available file. Fortunately this file is usually j

Re: dpkg parse error

1997-06-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, David S. Zelinsky wrote: > A couple of months ago I got a CD from IConnect, with Debian 1.2. I recently > got around to trying to upgrade (from Debian 1.1), using dselect. When I > tried to Install, I dselect crashed with an error message like: > >dpkg: parse error, in

Re: dpkg parse error

1997-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
David S. Zelinsky writes: The problem seems to be that you're now using epochs while your version of dpkg can't handle them. To fix this just type dpkg --clear-avail # This will empty /var/lib/dpkg/available and get # dpkg back to work dpkg -i .../bo/binary-i386/base/dpkg_*.d