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Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error

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Package: upgrade-reports
Version: 9
Severity: grave

Followed the Debian 9 release notes to upgrade a jessie i386 (686) machine
to stretch. No apt sources except official debian ones. Following the apt-get
dist-upgrade step, attempts to use apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude
produce the following error:

# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Ign:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:3 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [62.9 kB]
Hit:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Fetched 62.9 kB in 1s (38.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: flAbsPath on /var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (22: Invalid
argument)
E: Could not open file  - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Problem opening
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.


Error persists after reboot of the system.

However, dpkg -l and similar still work. The /var/lib/dpkg structure
appears to be intact:

$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg
total 6904
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Jul  7 16:39 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1379057 Apr 28  2015 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1361618 Apr 28  2015 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       8 Feb 20  2006 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     953 Jul  7 15:54 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1034 Jul  7 15:54 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  339968 Jul  7 16:03 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root       0 Jul  7 16:44 lock
-rw-r----- 1 root root       0 Feb 20  2006 methlock
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root    4096 Feb  7  2011 methods
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 May 26  2005 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     460 Jul  7 16:40 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     421 Jul  7 16:40 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1961225 Jul  7 16:44 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1961225 Jul  7 16:44 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Jul  7 16:43 triggers
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Jul  7 16:44 updates


I am using Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, kernel 2.2.17-pre-patch-13 and libc6
2.1.3-10.

Earlier in the week, I did a similar upgrade on another system with same
hardware and didn't experience a problem.

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Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error Alan Schwartz <alansz@uic.edu> - 2017-07-11 01:40 +0200
  Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error Alan Schwartz <alansz@uic.edu> - 2017-07-11 20:50 +0200
    Bug#867997: jessie->stretch, all apt clients break with /var/lib/dpkg/status realpath error Alan Schwartz <alansz@uic.edu> - 2017-07-11 21:40 +0200

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