apt-get update and upgrade problem

[federico silva]

Well, it turned out that the broken file was the packages
cache. The version field was missing for a package.

I really can't believe this happened, as I cant understand
how it happened.

The sad fact is another package is broken now due to
an error like that. Even considering that packages break
how comes the system allows borked metadata into
it's cache. And what about failover? I want to install
other packages unrelated with the broken one and
can't.

I have used GNU/Linux distros for several years now
and came to k/ubuntu because I was tired of tinkering
with the system. I need to work on other things to make
a living. Yesterday night I could not finish an asignement
because I could not change ftp servers.

So be it, surely I will have an interesting weekend.

Sorry for the morose mood but wrong is wrong.

f

On 7/3/07, federico silva <ouch.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No prob. Thanks for the insterest.
> When I go back home I will just look into
> the offending file and if I cant fix it I will comment
> the code that fails and see.
> I have removed stuborn packages like this before.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> f
>
> On 7/3/07, D. Michael McIntyre <michael.mcintyre at rosegardenmusic.com >
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 03 July 2007, federico silva wrote:
> > > I am getting an error message on apt-get update
> >
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > W: Encountered status field in a non-version description
> > > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> >
> > Since you're seeing that "status field" error all the way into "apt-get
> > -f
> > install" then it seems you're going to have to clear that up before
> > anything
> > else will work.
> >
> > One or more of your sources is probably busted somehow, or it could be
> > something even uglier.  I don't have time to lay out how I would go
> > about
> > trying to solve this one.  Maybe later, if nobody else steps up to offer
> > you
> > suggestions.
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> > D. Michael McIntyre
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