On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Mark Minnich wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Tried to update and got an error > > 1) Ver 10.04LTS > 2) Installing security patches. > 3) A good update > 4) A dpkg failure.
The precise error is: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'checkbox' is missing final newline Can you attach the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/checkbox.list to see exactly what got written down? In theory, dpkg only writes valid .list files and usually this error is the result of some sort of file system corruption. What filesystem are you using for /var? Are you using an SSD disk? Your log is interesting because the error clearly appears after an upgrade of checkbox 0.8.6 to 0.9.1. That said one month elapsed between the upgrade and the first time we see the failure. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/829110 Title: package dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2ubuntu3.2 failed to install/upgrade: package dhcp3-client is already installed and configured To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/829110/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
