duzinga
October 17th, 2011, 02:49 AM
I tried to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10, and the upgrade failed due to errors in my dpkg status file. I tried replacing the status file with every backup available on the system to no luck.
I had this problem before when I was installing some packages in the system, but repeated executions of
apt-get -f install and
dpkg --configure -a would solve the problem. This time the system failed to no rescue, so I wiped it clean and tried to install a new OS. Ubuntu 11.10 failed to install both from CD and USB. I tried Kubuntu 11.10 which installed successfully, but now I still have the problem with corrupt dpkg status file. Every time I install a package the status file is corrupt most often with spaces replaced with quotation marks ("). On top of this the Kubuntu installation I have at the moment is very unstable, with programs crashing for no reason.
I have run Memtest86+ and no errors were found.
Any ideas what could be causing all this?
I'm installing the 64bit versions on a DELL Latitude E5510 laptop.
I had this problem before when I was installing some packages in the system, but repeated executions of
apt-get -f install and
dpkg --configure -a would solve the problem. This time the system failed to no rescue, so I wiped it clean and tried to install a new OS. Ubuntu 11.10 failed to install both from CD and USB. I tried Kubuntu 11.10 which installed successfully, but now I still have the problem with corrupt dpkg status file. Every time I install a package the status file is corrupt most often with spaces replaced with quotation marks ("). On top of this the Kubuntu installation I have at the moment is very unstable, with programs crashing for no reason.
I have run Memtest86+ and no errors were found.
Any ideas what could be causing all this?
I'm installing the 64bit versions on a DELL Latitude E5510 laptop.