On Oct 23, 2008, at 1:13 AM, Marc Margolies wrote:

> I am having trouble rebuilding everything after setting rsync to  
> unstable.
> Here is some output.....
> Is there something I can do about this?
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
>>

<snip metric ton of unnecessary information)


>>


>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3688  
>> package
>> `fink-buildlock-libxml2-2.6.32-1':
>> missing version
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
>> Can't set build lock for atk1 (1.24.0-1)
>>
>> If any of the above dpkg error messages mention conflicting  
>> packages or
>> missing dependencies -- for example, telling you that the package
>> fink-buildlock-atk1-1.24.0-1 conflicts with something else -- fink  
>> has
>> probably gotten confused by trying  to build many packages at once.
>> Try building just this current package atk1 (i.e, "fink build  
>> atk1"). When
>> that has completed successfully,  you could retry whatever you
>> did that led to the present error.
>>
>> Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have  
>> not wasted
>> compiling time! Packages that had been completely built before
>> this error occurred will not have to be recompiled.
>>
>> See http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:buildlocks for more
>> information.
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-atk1-1.24.0-1 >/dev/null
>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3688  
>> package
>> `fink-buildlock-libxml2-2.6.32-1':
>> missing version
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
>> Failed: buildlock failure
>> p30:~ marc$
>

Did you happen to go to that wiki page?  At the bottom, under the  
bullet "Installing the buildlock when dpkg is confused" it has your  
problem and a solution.

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