I looked at the files again, some contain alot of garbage and some just a CR in the middle. I'm going to look into the badblock issue for sure. I'll get back to you if I find out more.
Thanks ---original attached message--- Previously MoFo wrote: > fgets gave an empty null-terminated string from > `/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.list' That's weird. Are you sure you don't have a corrupted filesystem? If not, can you mail the contents of 1 or 2 .list-files that dpkg is complaining about? Wichert. -- ============================================================================ == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/

