[Bug 659477] Re: synaptic and apt-get fail with dpkg error

[Raphaël Hertzog]

You can replace it with a backup, see /var/backup/dpkg.status.* or
/var/lib/dpkg/status-old. In any case I don't think that dpkg is
responsible of the file corruption.

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  synaptic and apt-get fail with dpkg error

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  attempts to upgrade using synaptic or apt-get fail with error message
  about dpkg/status:

  Preconfiguring packages ...
  dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 51436 package 'libdjvulibre21':
   `Replaces' field, invalid package name `
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 51436 package 'libdjvulibre21':
   `Replaces' field, invalid package name `

  How can I fix or rebuild status file ?

  
  System is 10.10 Meerkat, this is the first update attempt since the dist-upgrade on 10/10/10.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: dpkg 1.15.8.4ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Oct 12 16:02:22 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dpkg

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