On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:31:17AM +0100, Helmut Toplitzer wrote: > I ran into the same problem on a clean (quite minimal) stable > system. (apt 0.5.4) > Heres what I've done to resolve the problem: > > diff /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status > > to see what has changed during the last working apt-cycle. > Take a note somewhere. (In my case it was the removing of iptables > package which reproducible crashed my apt, even after reinstall > etc.) > > cp status-old to status > > undo the done by reinstalling the affected packages.
Can you send a copy of status-old, and the status file before and after the reinstall? -- - mdz
