Izobalax
March 24th, 2010, 04:02 PM
Afternoon all...
Yesterday I started getting a strange error when updating and upgrading my system. I have no idea what's caused this or why it's occurring but it's stopping me keeping my system updated.
To update my system in the terminal, which I do daily, I usually enter:
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
I've got a few updates to upgrade today:
The following packages will be upgraded:
devicekit-disks gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libsmbclient libwbclient0
samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
However, the upgrade stops here:
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu5 [166kB]
Get: 2 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main libwbclient0 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [103kB]
Get: 3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.14-4ubuntu1.1 [1,325kB]
Get: 4 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main libsmbclient 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [1,652kB]
Get: 5 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main smbclient 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [11.4MB]
Get: 6 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [388kB]
Get: 7 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main samba-common-bin 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [4,789kB]
Fetched 19.9MB in 17s (1,139kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1974 package 'xfonts-mathml':
invalid package name (character ` ' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._'))
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
How can I fix this, O' Wise People?
/izo\
Yesterday I started getting a strange error when updating and upgrading my system. I have no idea what's caused this or why it's occurring but it's stopping me keeping my system updated.
To update my system in the terminal, which I do daily, I usually enter:
sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
I've got a few updates to upgrade today:
The following packages will be upgraded:
devicekit-disks gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libsmbclient libwbclient0
samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
However, the upgrade stops here:
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu5 [166kB]
Get: 2 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main libwbclient0 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [103kB]
Get: 3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/universe gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.14-4ubuntu1.1 [1,325kB]
Get: 4 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main libsmbclient 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [1,652kB]
Get: 5 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main smbclient 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [11.4MB]
Get: 6 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [388kB]
Get: 7 http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main samba-common-bin 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6 [4,789kB]
Fetched 19.9MB in 17s (1,139kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1974 package 'xfonts-mathml':
invalid package name (character ` ' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._'))
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
How can I fix this, O' Wise People?
/izo\