Broken Packages

[wireless_Phil]

Need help figuring this out, don't know if it was the Firefox 3 update or the Ubuntu Hardy update that cause the problem?

This is what I get after trying to fix broken packages, I tried twice. Not sure what this means, but think its not good.

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfigured packages...
dpkg: parse error, in file 'var/lib/dpkg/statuse' near line 12830 package 'xerver-xorg-input-synaptics':
file details field "Size" not allowed in status file

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

I went into terminal and did "sudo apt-get update"

Everything looks good until the end.

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

So I am at a loss. I won't loose data, its all on flash.

Phil

[perce]

The second message looks like you were trying to open a second package manager, which is forbidden. Maybe you didn't close update manager before running apt-get?

[wireless_Phil]

Maybe? I'll try again, as you said and if I get the same results, I'll keep digging.

Thanks,

[wireless_Phil]

Ok Perce, that was part of it solved for the lower 2, I had the Terminal open and the Package Manager.

So now the Apt-get worked. I'll still have to figure out the rest of it.

Thanks,

Phil

[jdb]

Ok Perce, that was part of it solved for the lower 2, I had the Terminal open and the Package Manager.

So now the Apt-get worked. I'll still have to figure out the rest of it.

Thanks,

Phil

Google on:

dpkg: parse error, in file 'var/lib/dpkg/status

and you'll find a lot of things to try.

jdb

[wireless_Phil]

Thanks JDB,

I started doing that yesterday and did find a few for various versions of Linux.

Some mention rebuilding the package which I really don't fell that at easy with. I'm new to Ubuntu, but did have some Unix experience 15 years ago, but not much.

All my data is saved on a flash drive so I won't loose anything and tried to start over with the live CD, but it ignored it and booted from the HD.

Starting over would be the easyest for me to do.

Phil

[thomasaaron]

Please run...

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes dist-upgrade

Hopefully that will fix the problem and get your system up to date.

[wireless_Phil]

Please run...

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --assume-yes dist-upgrade

Hopefully that will fix the problem and get your system up to date.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.4 with a Celeron CPU on a 2003 Toshiba Satellite. 30Gig HD.

[thomasaaron]

I'm using Ubuntu 8.4 with a Celeron CPU on a 2003 Toshiba Satellite. 30Gig HD.

That's OK. It doesn't matter. Try running the commands.

[wireless_Phil]

I'm using Ubuntu 8.4 with a Celeron CPU on a 2003 Toshiba Satellite. 30Gig HD.

Commands ran in order and the end results as follows )Not all results, just the endings)

(1)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 12830 package `xserver-xorg-input-synaptics':
file details field `Size' not allowed in status file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)


(2)
updates/restricted Sources
Reading package lists... Done

(3) Is a big list of Uninstalled maybe too big for me to place in this form?

led
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-rendition but it is not installed
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-sisusb but it is not installed
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-tdfx but it is not installed
Depends: xserver-xorg-video-vesa but it is not installed
xterm: Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) but it is not installed
xulrunner-1.9: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1) but it is not installed
xutils: Depends: x11-utils but it is not installed
yelp: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1) but it is not installed
Depends: librarian0 but it is not installed
zenity: Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.