Re: dpkg/status corruption question

2014-12-24 Thread Simon Bell
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 15:29:47 Bob Proulx wrote: > Hello Simon, > > Simon Bell wrote: > > My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting > > > this when trying to apt-update: > You asked this question before and I posted a reply to it then. Did > you miss seeing it? I

Re: dpkg/status corruption question

2014-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Simon, Simon Bell wrote: > My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting > this when trying to apt-update: You asked this question before and I posted a reply to it then. Did you miss seeing it? I think you must have because you have apparently asked the same questio

dpkg/status corruption question

2014-12-23 Thread Simon Bell
Hi Everyone, My /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt recently, I was getting this when trying to apt-update: dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 27803 package 'gcr': field name `°[?@' must be followed by colon E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) I