dldr-wpa-supplicant_0.4.6.0_i386.deb seems to corrupts /var/lib/dpkg/status
Duchesne Family <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:48:42 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.driver-loader |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Folks, I just installed this Debian package on my Debian box: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/dldr-wpa-supplicant_0.4.6.0_i386.deb After doing so, I was unable to update my system anymore: running 'apt-get update' or 'dselect, Update' would yield an error message indicating that the file /var/lib/dpkg/status could not be parsed. I went ahead and binary searched the file to find the faulty package, which turned out to be dldr-wpa-supplicant. Apparently, the parser does not like the extraordinarily long 'Description:' field of the package. I truncated the field to only keep its first 2 lines, and everything went back to normal. -- Regis "HPReg" Duchesne