upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 crashes complitly

[Kendzi]

Because of this bug upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 crashes completely in middle. This made my computer completely useless brick.

And every thing because two empty lines in configuration files …

- !!!LOG!!!
Log started: 2012-04-27 20:03:17
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 3281 package 'ubueasy':^M
 blank line in value of field 'Description'^M
Log ended: 2012-04-27 20:03:18

Log started: 2012-04-27 20:07:00
Setting up dpkg (1.16.1.2ubuntu7) ...^M
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 3673 package 'ubueasy':^M
 blank line in value of field 'Description'^M
Log ended: 2012-04-27 20:07:03

Reason:

- there was two empty lines in files:
/var/lib/dpkg/status
/var/lib/dpkg/available

- this files was look like this:
BEGIN>>>
Package: ubueasy
Priority: extra
Section: ubueasy
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Garhuy <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.0-garhuy3
Depends: yad | zenity, policykit-1, libdconf0, libdconf-dbus-1-0, libnotify-bin, synaptic
Size: 265988
Description: ubueasy - oprogramowanie ułatwiające codzienną pracę w Ubuntu
 ubueasy zostało przygotowane dla nowych użytkowników systemu Ubuntu. Program ułatwia początkową konfigurację dla Polskich użytkowników systemu, instaluje oprogramowanie, dodaje nowe repozytoria oraz ułatwia start z Ubuntu.

www.ubueasy.tk
Homepage: http://www.ubueasy.tk
<<<END

- but it should look like this:
BEGIN>>>
Package: ubueasy
Priority: extra
Section: ubueasy
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Garhuy <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.0-garhuy3
Depends: yad | zenity, policykit-1, libdconf0, libdconf-dbus-1-0, libnotify-bin, synaptic
Size: 265988
Description: ubueasy - oprogramowanie ułatwiające codzienną pracę w Ubuntu
 ubueasy zostało przygotowane dla nowych użytkowników systemu Ubuntu. Program ułatwia początkową konfigurację dla Polskich użytkowników systemu, instaluje oprogramowanie, dodaje nowe repozytoria oraz ułatwia start z Ubuntu. www.ubueasy.tk
Homepage: http://www.ubueasy.tk
<<<END

In section Description: it was empty line, after empty line it was string “www.ubueasy.tk” and after that was line Homepage: ...

Because of this error upgrade crashed

after reboot I tried to use apt-get upgrade but it show error about missing dependencies

after running comand:
sudo apt-get -f install

I get message about error and empty lines in files:
/var/lib/dpkg/status
/var/lib/dpkg/available

After manual remove of empty lines in description command "sudo apt-get -f install" Started working

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: a0ea5de23aa96092b26e1b3a29c37c34
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
Date: Fri Apr 27 20:14:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-26 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SwaJime (john-swajime)]

that hurt :-(