[Bug 439796] Re: Corrupted /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Raphaël Hertzog]

You can reinstate the backup file like you did. But doing this
automatically would not be good. It would hide a severe problem. And
instead of looking at changing your memory or your disk, you'd continue
to not notice that your system is starting to not work properly.

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Title:
  Corrupted /var/lib/dpkg/status

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  Trying to apply updates today, I received the following error:

  dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41262 in package `scim'
  :
   newline in field name `Orig"'
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
  A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
  dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41262 package `scim'
  :
   newline in field name `Orig"'

  I can now no longer install any packages.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: synaptic 0.62.5ubuntu3
  ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: synaptic
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

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