Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not working.

From: Adam Bogacki (afb_at_paradise.net.nz)
Date: 02/12/04

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    Sorry Joostie, it did not work. Same result.

    At the moment it looks as if I have a de-facto 'stable' system,
    frozen at a moment in its ['unstable'] development path.

    Adam.

    > In article <40274007.4040704@paradise.net.nz>, Adam Bogacki wrote:
    > > Hi, I'm running unstable and have not been able to do a successful
    > > 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing' for 2-3 weeks now. That is a big
    > > backlog in unstable.
    > >
    > > The key message seems to be
    > >
    > >> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
    > >
    > > 'apt-get update' gives me the message
    > >
    > >> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://mirror.pacific.net.au
    > >> unstable/main Packages
    > >>
    > +(/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.pacific.net.au_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)>>
    > - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    > >> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
    > >> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
    >
    >
    > If te package file /var/lib/dpkg/status really is messed up,
    > not much is going to work. Do you still have a file in
    > /var/lib/dpkg/status-old ?
    > If so, make a copy of it in some safe place (and also of

    > any messed-up /var/lib/dpkg/status file), and then maybe try
    >
    >
    > cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
    >
    >
    > and run again. I don't know what you can do if you really don't
    > have a status file any more.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > joostje
    >
    > 

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