Re: [gNewSense-users] I think my update manager has crashed - SOS

[Kevin Dean]

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 <address@hidden> 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:
>
> address@hidden:~$ 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)
> address@hidden:~$
>
> 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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