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. <--- 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. <--- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
