It would seem that my /var/lib/dpkg/status is broken which means I cannot update
Can anyone give me a helping hand at fixing it?
here's the error I get:
Code: Select all
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 237, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 72, in main
status.readfile('/var/lib/dpkg/status')
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 105, in readfile
self.stanzas += [ControlStanza(x) for x in open(file, 'r').read().split('\n\n') if x]
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/DebianFiles.py", line 64, in __init__
field, value = line.split(':', 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 39951 package 'libnm-glib-vpn1':
field name `
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)