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Re: Bug#951479: [files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline] [debian buster 10.3]



Control: reassign -1 dpkg

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:41:58AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Clearly says base-passwd, so reassigning there.

base-passwd on its own couldn't possibly be responsible for its own
dpkg-managed files list (/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-passwd.list) missing a
final newline.  This is almost certainly filesystem corruption, but
reassigning to dpkg in case there's anything that can be done there.

> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:31:25AM +0100, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
[...]
> > root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# apt-get install --no-install-recommends
> > python-apt -y -q
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > The following additional packages will be installed:
> >   dirmngr gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
> > gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapt-inst2.0 libassuan0 libksba8 libnpth0
> > pinentry-curses
> >   python-apt-common
> > Suggested packages:
> >   dbus-user-session libpam-systemd pinentry-gnome3 tor parcimonie xloadimage
> > scdaemon pinentry-doc python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc
> > Recommended packages:
> >   lsb-release iso-codes
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   dirmngr gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
> > gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapt-inst2.0 libassuan0 libksba8 libnpth0
> > pinentry-curses python-
> >   python-apt-common
> > 0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0 B/7575 kB of archives.
> > After this operation, 16.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> > debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
> > Selecting previously unselected package libassuan0:amd64.
> > 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)
> > root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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