Re: dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

1997-08-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Looks like your status file has been corrupted. First, copy the status file to a safe place (% cp -a /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/.) Then look for line 12376 (using your favourite editor). I don't use quota, so I can't help with the spcifics; but what has happened is that some thing that

dselect/dpkg -- status/available file problems

1997-08-26 Thread Paul Miller
I keep getting errors like this (with other packages too) dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12376 package `quota': field name `4cb6de6e2e2f1350b0410cf1e47ff05b' must be followed by colon when I use dselect... when this happens, I usaully copy the backup file and it w