WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status".
WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status".
WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status".
WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status".
WARNING: can't read dpkg status file "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status".
Setting runtime build-lock...
dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.8-1 /sw/src/fink.build
dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.8-1' in `/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.8-1_2008.03.15-00.43.32_darwin-i386.deb'.
Installing build-lock package...
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.8-1_2008.03.15-00.43.32_darwin-i386.deb
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
Can't set build lock for base-files (1.9.8-1)

If any of the above dpkg error messages mention conflicting packages or missing dependencies -- for example, telling you that the package
fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.8-1 conflicts with something else -- fink has probably gotten confused by trying  to build many packages at once. Try building just
this current package base-files (i.e, "fink build base-files"). When that has completed successfully,  you could retry whatever you did that led to the present
error.

Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have not wasted compiling time! Packages that had been completely built before this error occurred
will not have to be recompiled.

See http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:buildlocks for more information. 
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-base-files-1.9.8-1 >/dev/null
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2
Failed: buildlock failure