Re: base-files: unable to upgrade, conffile error

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

reassign 951200 dpkg
thanks

Hello Guillem et al.

I'm reassigning this bug to dpkg because it is a lot more likely
to be a bug in dpkg than a bug in base-files.

Thanks.

El 12/2/20 a las 12:31, Luca Koroll escribió:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
>
> apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
>
> The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> There is no further error code or information.
>
> Thanks for helping.
> [...]