Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: dpkg
When trying to download and install updates with update manager, after
it downloads and attempts to install it throws up an error. It says:
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages...
(reading database ... 50%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'python-serial' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
it then does nothing else. I would really like to know how to get past
this, as there are important security updates i'd like to take care of.
I am using Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala
as for my version of dpkg the output of apt-cache policy dpkg is:
dpkg:
Installed: 1.15.4ubuntu2
Candidate: 1.15.4ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 1.15.4ubuntu2 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 26 08:55:56 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: dpkg 1.15.4ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: dpkg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
** Affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Getting an error from dpkg when Update Manager is trying to do regular updates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528833
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