Update failure (Solved), I think

[Jim Smith]

Jim Smith wrote:
> Jim Smith wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone experienced this failure with todays updates? System is
>> Hardy, kernel is 2.6.24-16-386, Gnome 2.22.1.
>>
>> Result of sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is as follows:
>> jim at JimsBook:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> [sudo] password for jim:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree      
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Calculating upgrade... Done
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>   bsdutils evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server
>>   evolution-data-server-common evolution-plugins gnome-system-monitor
>>   libcamel1.2-11 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2
>>   libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8
>>   libegroupwise1.2-13 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libgdata-google1.2-1
>>   libgdata1.2-1 libldap-2.4-2 openoffice.org-java-common update-manager
>>   update-manager-core util-linux-locales wine wine-dev
>> 25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B/39.8MB of archives.
>> After this operation, 4096B of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>> jim at JimsBook:~$
>>
>> Gnome update-manager also returned the same failure code.
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jim
>>
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> Further work shows that running "sudo dpkg --configure -a gives the
> following error msg:
>
> jim at JimsBook:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12823
> package `openoffice.org-java-common':
>  `Conflicts' field, invalid package name `
> jim at JimsBook:~$
>
> Could this be what is causing the problem?
>
> Jim
>
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Today I went in with Gedit and found the offending line in file status.
Not knowing what it should really be, I saved the file as status-save
and copied status-old over to status. Tried running updates from
yesterday as well as those from today, all worked normally.
Maybe this will help someone.

Jim