PROBLEM

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Sunday 28,March,2010 01:54 AM, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
> 
> On 25/03/2010, at 10.32, natalya hutagalung wrote:
>> i have a problem ----> "dpkg --configure -a
>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0012' near line 16:
>> missing package name"
>>
>> it make me can run "apt-get install"
>>
>> can you  help me ?
> 
> 
> The error message is trying to tell you what the problem is. You need  
> to specify the package name:
> 
>   dpkg --configure -a PACKAGENAME_HERE

Actually I think that it may have been a filesystem corruption. Could you check
what /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0012 contains? I have had some python scripts end up
in there on an ext4 filesystem before. The error message is similar, and
/var/lib/dpkg/updates/* are actually dpkg's journal files of what still needs to
be done to dpkg's database, if I am not mistaken.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

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