Comment 3 for bug 233975

From the log:

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Preparing to replace libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 (using .../libc6_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement libc6 ...

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 10850 package `hal':

 `Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `libdbus-1-3'

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 10850 package `hal':

 `Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `libdbus-1-3'

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 10850 package `hal':

 `Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `libdbus-1-3'

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 10850 package `hal':

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It looks like your /var/lib/dpkg/status file got corrupted. Could you please attach a compressed version of it?