Thanks for confirming that it works again for you.
This error can't be related to the removal of the no-longer supported
packages. It is either a bug in dpkg or a problem with your hardware
(RAM, file-system-corruption). I suspect something with the hardware as
we haven't got any other report like
I've tried opening available with gedit but apperently it didn't work (even
with root) (it reported that it didn't recognize the encoding in the file).
I managed to solve this by deleting line 2 and 8 from the file and now
everything is back to normal.
I was just wondering... Could this be from
The upgrade log itself looks good.
You may be able to fix the available file by opening it as root (via
sudo) in a text-editor and remove the strange lines at the beginning
after "Python-version: all"
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Thanks for these files.
The available files looks nasty and is corupted. That smells like bad
RAM or a problem with the harddisk.
Could you please check that?
Thanks,
Michael
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** Attachment added: "available file (i can't open it?)"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/4664218/available.tar.gz
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** Attachment added: "files from dist-upgrade"
http://librarian.launchpad.net/4664217/dist-upgrade.tar.gz
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Thanks for your bugreport.
Can you please attach the files from /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this
bugreport? And a (gziped) copy of /var/lib/dpkg/info/available
thanks,
Michael
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Importance: Undecided => Medium
Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
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