dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'nautilus-sen

[celfletch]

I am getting the error message: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'nautilus-sendto-empathy' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2), when I try to upgrade, or download software. Since I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10, I have continually received system error messages on-screen when I log in, though this is after I go on Firefox, and it may be a Firefox error. But I am unable to update any software ever since the upgrade. I have fiddled about a bit, and unticked some items in the software system settings. Now the error message I get is the one you see above.
Would it be better if I reinstalled my good old 12.04? I am not very good with technology and need to be 'led'.
Thanks for your thoughts.

C.

[schragge]

The error message indicates that file /var/lib/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list is corrupt (missing final newline). This is how the file should look like. Besides the files listed on the linked page, it also should contains folders they are in and all directories above those in the path, i.e. /usr/share/doc, /usr/share, /usr, /usr/lib, /usr/lib/nautilus-sendto, etc. Compare this with what in the file on your system.

[celfletch]

Thanks. But just HOW do I do this please?

[schragge]

Open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+t, or see community/UsingTheTerminal for detailed instructions), and run the commands below, then post their output here:

dpkg -l nautilus-sendto-empathy
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list

[celfletch]

dpkg -l nautilus-sendto-empathy
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii nautilus-sendt 3.6.0.3-0ubu i386 GNOME multi-protocol chat and cal
******************************:~$ cat /var/log/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list
cat: /var/log/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list: No such file or directory
******************************dpkg -l nautilus-sendto-empathy
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii nautilus-sendt 3.6.0.3-0ubu i386 GNOME multi-protocol chat and cal
******************************~$ cat /var/log/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list

[schragge]

~$ cat /var/log/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list
cat: /var/log/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list: No such file or directory

Oops. The package is listed as installed, but an important configuration file is missing. Please open a terminal, run

sudo dpkg -C

and post the output here.

When posting, please wrap the output of terminal commands in [code][/code] tags to make it more readable. The # button above the text input area in Adv Reply allows you to insert them.

[celfletch]

Oops. The package is listed as installed, but an important configuration file is missing. Please open a terminal, run

sudo dpkg -C

and post the output here.

When posting, please wrap the output of terminal commands in [code][/code] tags to make it more readable. The # button above the text input area in Adv Reply allows you to insert them.

[The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the
database, they need to be reinstalled:
adobeair Adobe AIR 2
medibuntu-keyring GnuPG key of the Medibuntu repository]









[/HTML]

[celfletch]

The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the
database, they need to be reinstalled:
 adobeair             Adobe AIR 2
 medibuntu-keyring    GnuPG key of the Medibuntu repository

[celfletch]

Just tried reinstalling AdobeAir with these results:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libhal1
The following NEW packages will be installed
  libhal1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  adobeair
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 338 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/16.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 239 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously unselected package libhal1.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 files list file for package 'nautilus-sendto-empathy' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

[schragge]

Oops, sorry. I made a typo, that's why the file couldn't be found. The right command is:

cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/nautilus-sendto-empathy.list

. Please post the output of it.

Also editing my post above.