Your message dated Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:55:54 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#506498: dpkg fails with parse error in
/var/lib/dpkg/status
has caused the Debian Bug report #506498,
regarding dpkg: fails with "package has status installed but triggers are
awaited"
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.14.23
Severity: normal
dpkg fails complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file.
# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 package
`python-4suite-xml':
package has status installed but triggers are awaited
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
#
The relevant portion of apt's term.log:
====
Log started: 2008-11-21 18:34:54
(Reading database ... 283360 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.14.22 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.14.23_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Log ended: 2008-11-21 18:35:26
Log started: 2008-11-21 18:36:06
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2881 package `python
-4suite-xml':
package has status installed but triggers are awaited
Log ended: 2008-11-21 18:36:07
====
Following the error, dpkg is unusable with every invocation resulting in
the above error.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hi!
On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 17:08:14 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> severity 506498 normal
> retitle 506498 dpkg: fails with "package has status installed but triggers
> are awaited"
> tag 506498 unreproducible
> thanks
>
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > I guess it could be 1.14.19, I am not very sure. It is definitely not
> > 1.14.22 and very unlikely that it is older than 1.14.19.
>
> Well, since I can't identify clearly how this happened I'll set the
> severity back to important/normal and mark it as unreproducible.
More so when the dpkg had been manually extracted and copied over.
> Maybe someone else will experience it too. If not, we'll close the bug
> later.
As no one else reported anything similar meanwhile, I'm going to go
ahead and close this now.
regards,
guillem
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