Array 4 on AMD64 - libxmuul + nvidia-glx problem

[Byron Poland]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:20:40 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:48:17PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote:
> 
> > Tried to install the NVIDIA packages so that I could get out of
> > 640x400 on my 19" screen, and dpkg won't install libxmuu1 either from
> > the install cd or the download from the archives with apt.  I get the
> > same error:
> >
> > byron at glide:/media/cdrom1/pool/main/x/xorg$ sudo dpkg -i
> > libxmuu1_6.8.1-1ubuntu15_amd64.deb
> > Password:
> > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 858
> > package `libxmuu1':
> >  missing version
> 
> Looks like the dpkg database has been corrupted. :-/
> 
> It's a text file, and you can try to repair it by hand.
> 

Okay repairing by hand works, but this seems to be happening a lot
now.  Any idea on what could cause it?