Andrei messaged me off-list to try and resolve this but i just wanted to add that I don't think this is a gNewSense issue - I pulled the sources and examined the package and there are no illegal characters.
I then rebuilt it on gNewSense AND Debian Lenny then removed (but not purged) it like he had and it was not repeatable. -Kevin On 7/25/07, Kevin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It appears that you've got a package installed that has an illegal character in it's name. If this is pure gNewSense system, then you've discovered a bug in one of our packages. If this is NOT a pure gNewSense system, you've discovered a bug in someone ELSES package. Using gedit or your text editor of choice, open the file "/var/lib/dpkg/status" and go to line 24129. This line is in a chunk of text that corresponds to a package, please post that chunk (but NOT THE WHOLE FILE) back to this mailing list so we can see exactly why package has the error in it. -Kevin Dean On 7/25/07, andrei raevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > >
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