[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] invalid character in revision number

Nuno Magalhães nunomagalhaes at eu.ipp.pt
Thu Jul 29 20:20:16 UTC 2010


Hi,

I ran aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade on a Sid box and got this:

Need to get 0B/342MB of archives. After unpacking 11.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 61529
package 'virtualbox-3.1':
 error in Version string `3.1.2-56127_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

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/available' near line 61529
package 'virtualbox-3.1':
 error in Version string `3.1.2-56127_Debian_lenny': invalid character
in revision number

Is it my bad? dpkg -l gives me the same message...

Regards,
Nuno

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