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jlaurika
December 27th, 2008, 04:57 PM
I cannot use any apt-get/synaptic/aptitude/update manager to update my 8.04 dapper. This is my fathers machine and Ubuntu wasnt being used in a while and it seems to have ~350 updates (dualboot winxp/ubuntu).

When ubuntu was started, i ran update manager and aptitude says:


Noudin 154MB ajassa 1min15s (2038kB/s)
Puretaan malleja paketeteista: 100 %
Esiräätälöidään paketteja...
(Luetaan tietokantaa... dpkg: virhe käsiteltäessä libgtk1.2 (--remove):
paketin `libglib1.2' tiedostoluettelo sisältää tyhjän tiedostonimen
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:252: process_queue: Assertion `!queuelen' failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
Jonkin paketin asennus epäonnistui. Yritän toipua:
Luetaan pakettiluetteloita... Valmis
Muodostetaan riippuvuussuhteiden puu
Luetaan tilatietoja... Valmis
Luen tilatietoja

(Its mostly in finnish)
But basicly the bold part is same in every package manager. And translatef roughly it states:
"(Reading database... dpkg: error handling libgtk1.2 (--remove) package 'libglib1.2' filelist includes empty filename"

Like normally I tried to google for answers but found none. :/

Partyboi2
December 28th, 2008, 02:06 AM
Open a terminal and move the empty file list out of the way

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib1.2.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib1.2.list.oldthen reinstall the package

sudo apt-get --reinstall install libglib1.2then

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

jlaurika
December 29th, 2008, 04:38 PM
Open a terminal and move the empty file list out of the way

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib1.2.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib1.2.list.oldthen reinstall the package

sudo apt-get --reinstall install libglib1.2then

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Thanks, this worked.