Hello, On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, D. Wegener wrote: > While attempting to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 the version of dpkg used > by Ubuntu was upgraded. The new version was unable to parse my > /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/available files. Under 11.10, I > had installed a package from Lexmark for a printer driver that had a > blank line in the package description field. The old version of dpkg > was apparently able to parse the file with the blank line. However, > when the new version encountered the files. any further package updates > failed and the update process proceeded to the cleanup/reboot phase.
Can you provide this package ? It seems weird because I don't think that dpkg ever allowed a blank line in the description field. A blank line means that it will begin to parse a new entry and as such it will complain because the new entry does not begin with a field. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/916799 Title: Blank line in previously installed packagedescription causes 12.04 upgrade failurt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/916799/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
