update failure

[Art Edwards]

I received this error message.

installArchives() failed:
(Reading database ... 
(Reading database ... 5%%
(Reading database ... 10%%
(Reading database ... 15%%
(Reading database ... 20%%
(Reading database ... 25%%
(Reading database ... 30%%
(Reading database ... 35%%
(Reading database ... 40%%
(Reading database ... 45%%
(Reading database ... 50%%
(Reading database ... 55%%
(Reading database ... 60%%
(Reading database ... 65%%
(Reading database ... 70%%
(Reading database ... 75%%
(Reading database ... 80%%
(Reading database ... 85%%
(Reading database ... 90%%
(Reading database ... 95%%
dpkg: ../../src/filesdb.c:630: findnamenode: Assertion
`(*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'' failed.
Error in function: 

Running quantal on a 64 bit machine


Any insight would be apprecitated.

Art Edwards