Hi, For a while already the update manager's icon, when pressed, used to load synaptic rather than the update manager. I then manually closed synaptic and launched the update manager and the system was updated. Now this morning when I got the "updates available icon" I clicked on it, synaptic was lauched, I closed it, then I manually lauched the update manager and I clicked 'install updates'. It downladed them, installed them, and announced that the very same 8 packages were still updatable. I repeated the operation 2 more times. Then I tried this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Password: Get:1 http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad Release.gpg [191B] Hit http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad Release Get:2 http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/main Packages Hit http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security Release Ign http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/universe Packages Ign http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/main Sources Ign http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/universe Sources Hit http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/main Packages Ign http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/universe Packages Hit http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/main Sources Ign http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/universe Packages Ign http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.gnewsense.org deltad/universe Sources Ign http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/universe Sources Hit http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/main Packages Hit http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/universe Packages Hit http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/main Sources Hit http://us.security.gnewsense.org deltad-security/universe Sources Fetched 2B in 1s (2B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-0 libdns21 libisc11 libisccc0 libisccfg1 liblwres9 8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1329kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 24129: invalid package name (character `' not allowed - only letters, digits and -+._ allowed) E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Any ideas as to what is going on here? WTF is this weird dpkg parse error?! How do I fix my computer to get the updates and synaptic/update manager running again? Many thanks, Andrei
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