On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > I am a little worried about my system (Debian stable on ULTRA 5). > > I have been experiencing for about three months a corruption on file > /var/lib/dpkg/available. > > When I install/upgrade, apt-get stops saying that in this file at > line XXXXX there is a forbidden character (usually `) instead of the > normal character. > > Usually I solve the problem editing the file /var/lib/dpkg/available, > going to that line and replacing the ` with the right character (guessing > it!).
I've had a similar problem a while ago with the dpkg status file. In my case it was caused by bad RAM. Have you tried memtest86 ? Frank
