That's not good. For comparison, here's my output: [ldx3:~] hansen% head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status Package: dillo Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: web
Package: vim Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: editors It's supposed to be a text file, as you can see, so something looks wrong. Try the following: do a 'head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old' (it's a backup file). If that gives you something sensible, then do 'sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status'. At that point you should be able to try to update again. I've cc'ed the mailing list to see if anybody else has additional ideas for you. If it doesn't work you may need to try installing fink again. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Jason Lincoln wrote: > Mr. Hansen, > > I have attached the output from head > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status. per your request. It appears > to be in a binary format. So I can't make anything > out of it. I hope that you can. > > Thanks, > Jason > > --- Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Somebody else reported a similar problem yesterday. > > The notion is that > > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status got corrupted somehow. > > Since you show an error > > near line 1, we may be able to get an easy look at > > the problem. Can you > > send the results of 'head /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status'? > > > > > > Unfortunately, this looks like it affects all of > > fink. > > -- > > Alexander K. Hansen > > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > > Levitated Dipole Experiment > > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany > > Street, NW17-219 > > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > > > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Jennifer Lincoln wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > After using fink to install a large number of > > applications, including X, > > > successfully. I am now receiving an error when I > > run dselect and choose > > > to select the packages I wish to install or > > upgrade. > > > > > > The error I receive is "dselect: parse error, in > > file > > > `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1: > > > field name `00dc?' must be followed by colon". > > > > > > Also, when I choose to update the list of > > available packages I now > > > reeive the following error. > > > > > > Get:1 http://fink.sourceforge.net release/main > > Packages [82.5kB] > > > Hit http://fink.sourceforge.net release/main > > Release > > > Fetched 82.5kB in 3s (22.4kB/s) > > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > > E: Encountered a section with no Package: header > > > E: Problem with MergeList /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status > > > E: The package lists or status file could not be > > parsed or opened. > > > > > > update available list script returned error exit > > status 1. > > > Press <enter> to continue. > > > > > > Does anyone know what I can do to get dselect > > working once again? Does > > > this impact all of fink or just dselect? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Fink-beginners mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
