Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades

got that from cron this morning:

/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 538, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 394, in main
    if conffile_prompt(item.destfile):
  File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 160, in conffile_prompt
    open(destFile), "conffiles")
SystemError: E:Unparsable control file

===

in debug mode:

check_conffile_prompt('/var/cache/apt/archives/brltty-x11_4.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb')
found pkg: brltty-x11
conffile line: /etc/brltty/brltty-xw-all.hlp 9f9e568c2818f63bfa3bc7759e5a2def
current md5: 9f9e568c2818f63bfa3bc7759e5a2def
<apt_pkg.AcquireItem object:Status: 2 Complete: 1 Local: 1 IsTrusted: 1 
FileSize: 1347790 
DestFile:'/var/cache/apt/archives/brltty_4.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb' DescURI: 
'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/brltty/brltty_4.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb'
 ID:0 ErrorText: ''>
check_conffile_prompt('/var/cache/apt/archives/brltty_4.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb')
found pkg: brltty
conffile line: /etc/brltty/brltty-ba-all.hlp 798c2b496bd3c045a32450241f3dd6ce
Fetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)                                                       
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 538, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 394, in main
    if conffile_prompt(item.destfile):
  File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 160, in conffile_prompt
    open(destFile), "conffiles")
SystemError: E:Unparsable control file

yet that file is not empty:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 2010-06-17 08:50 /etc/brltty/brltty-ba-all.hlp

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.65ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-6.17-generic 2.6.37-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 25 15:02:47 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades

** Affects: unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity

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  SystemError: E:Unparsable control file

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