Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:31:25AM +0100, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: > files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) That file is generated by dpkg on installation, so it's not the package's fault. The "final newline" check is a safety check to see that the file name is complete, guarding against write errors. You need to reinstall the base-passwd package, possibly after deleting /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-passwd.list, and I'd also run a file system check for good measure, because that state should only happen on write errors (although I remember it also sometimes happened when /var was full, but IIRC that got fixed). Simon
