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and subject line Bug#440138: update truncates available file
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.6.1-1
Severity: important
recently it happens sometimes, that after an update dpkg stops
with the message, that the available file is corrupt. its
output looks like this:
--->
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 177036 package
`beancounter':
EOF during value of field `Description' (missing final newline)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 177036 package
`beancounter':
EOF during value of field `Description' (missing final newline)
Press return to continue.
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I suspect aptitude to truncate the file - this is just a guess
though.
running dselect and doing the update there will fix this:
deselect output reads like:
--->
Fetched 1464kB in 5s (273kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Merging available information
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available.
Information about 21808 package(s) was updated.
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thank you for your attention
peter
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070825-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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hungerburg writes ("Bug#440138: update truncates available file"):
> It has been now for quite some time that this does not happen
> anymore - maybe it got fixed by some other update.
Thanks for letting us know. I'll close this bug then. If it should
recur, please file another bug - especially if you can reproduce it.
Thanks,
Ian.
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