Apologies as standard if this has been answered elsewhere, but: I was trying to perform quite a large updateall, and my MacBook ran out of space whilst compiling Qt4. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying attention at the time, and it completed the process, throwing a messy mixture of completion and error messages at me (that I unfortunately didn't log).
So now I have a persistent error that I don't fully understand and I don't seem to be able to get rid of, and I'm not sure how to fix. I've tried a few commands (output shown below) and they seem to give me the same error relating to one of the package files. "dpkg -C" and "dpkg --yet-to-unpack" don't give any output, either. Temporarily removing this file and attempting to get a new copy doesn't seem to work, nor does replacing the status file with the backup (as one site suggested). Unfortunately I also removed the partial builds from the /tmp dir to free up some space. I don't suppose someone has a solution for this? Thanks, -Ian ] fink scanpackages Updating the list of locally available binary packages. Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386 Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Release Reading Package Lists... E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. ] fink selfupdate rsync -az -q rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q --include='10.4/' --include='10.4/stable/' --include='10.4/stable/main/' --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.4/' --include='10.4/stable/' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*' --include='10.4/stable/crypto/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.4/' --include='10.4/unstable/' --include='10.4/unstable/main/' --include='10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.4/' --include='10.4/unstable/' --include='10.4/unstable/crypto/' --include='10.4/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/' --include='10.4/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.4/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/*' --include='10.4/unstable/crypto/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/' Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Release Reading Package Lists... E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100 WARNING: Failure while updating indexes. Running 'fink scanpackages' may fix indexing problems. Scanning package description files.......... Information about 9469 packages read in 10 seconds. No packages to install. The core packages have been updated. You should now update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. ] sudo apt-get update Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/main Release Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Packages Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/current/crypto Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_main_binary-darwin-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! 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