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Indian Art
May 1st, 2010, 10:58 AM
How can I make my Update Manager work again?

Here is the background:

Update Manager shows 121 updates (which include important security upgrades, Recommended Updates & other Updates which include Google Chrome and PlayOnLinux)

However, on clicking 'Install Updates', feeding the password and clicking 'Apply', Update Manager falsely states "Changes Applied
Update is Complete"

It further states "Not all Updates succeeded. For further details of failure, please expand the 'Details' panel below."

That details panel states, “Extracting packages from templates :100%”
“Preconfiguring Packages …
(Reading database … 5% dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting :
files list file for package 'foomatic-gui is missing final newline
E: Sub-process / usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover: ”

Please help.

What should I do to resolve this? :KS

Indian Art
May 1st, 2010, 11:02 AM
I opened a terminal and typed in this line:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

I got the following error in the process:

sp@sp-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://dl.google.com stable Release [2,540B]
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.usf.edu karmic/main Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [929B]
Ign http://deb.playonlinux.com karmic Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.usf.edu karmic/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic Release
Ign http://deb.playonlinux.com karmic/main Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://deb.playonlinux.com karmic Release [1,723B]
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates Release
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security Release
Ign http://deb.playonlinux.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic/universe Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic/universe Sources
Ign http://deb.playonlinux.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://deb.playonlinux.com karmic/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security/universe Packages
Hit http://ftp.usf.edu karmic-security/universe Sources
Fetched 3,659B in 2s (1,441B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
aisleriot app-install-data-commercial app-install-data-partner compiz
compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins compiz-wrapper cups cups-bsd
cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc cupsddk cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client
cupsys-common devicekit-disks dpkg dpkg-dev erlang-base erlang-crypto
erlang-inets erlang-mnesia erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-ssl
erlang-syntax-tools erlang-xmerl firefox firefox-3.0-branding
firefox-3.1-dbg firefox-3.1-gnome-support firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding
firefox-3.5-dbg firefox-3.5-gnome-support foomatic-filters gcalctool glchess
glines gnect gnibbles gnobots2 gnome-blackjack gnome-games
gnome-games-common gnome-mahjongg gnome-screensaver gnome-sudoku gnometris
gnomine gnotravex gnotski google-chrome-unstable gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gtali iagno icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea6-plugin ifupdown
kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data
kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins kdebase-workspace-libs4+5 landscape-common
libaudiofile0 libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavutil49 libcups2 libcupscgi1
libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libdecoration0
libdvdnav4 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0
libnss3-1d libnss3-1d-dbg libnss3-dev libpng12-0 libpng12-dev libpostproc51
libpq5 libpurple-bin libpurple0 libsmbclient libswscale0 libwbclient0
linux-firmware linux-libc-dev obexd-client openjdk-6-jre
openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib pidgin pidgin-data
plasma-dataengines-workspace plasma-widgets-workspace playonlinux
samba-common samba-common-bin same-gnome smbclient sudo ttf-opensymbol
tzdata tzdata-java uno-libs3 ure winbind xserver-common xserver-xorg-core
xulrunner-1.9.1 xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support
121 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/163MB of archives.
After this operation, 16.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
playonlinux
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 5%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'foomatic-gui' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
sp@sp-desktop:~$

Indian Art
May 1st, 2010, 11:05 AM
I tried to remove the foomatic package, and then installing again ( sudo apt-get remove foomatic-gui & then sudo apt-get install foomatic-gui )

However, that too did not work (the error message can be posted on request).

Please help.

Indian Art
May 1st, 2010, 08:41 PM
Will this help:

sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride

delete the postfix line

???!? :confused:

Indian Art
May 1st, 2010, 08:44 PM
Will this help:

sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride

delete the postfix line

???!? :confused:

Here is what I got from the Terminal:

root postdrop 02555 /usr/sbin/postqueue
hplip root 755 /var/run/hplip
root mlocate 2755 /usr/bin/mlocate
postfix postdrop 02710 /var/spool/postfix/public
root postdrop 02555 /usr/sbin/postdrop

I don't know which line to delete, that is if I need to delete a line

Indian Art
May 2nd, 2010, 11:32 PM
The problem was solved by copying the good (not corrupted) file from my Laptop PC (also running Ubuntu and dual booted) and using the terminal to paste it over the corrupted file of the problematic Desktop PC. I used a pen-drive and then the terminal For instance, sudo mv /home/sp/Music/system-tools-backends.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/system-tools-backends.list ). Good thing the update manager pointed out the offending agents (corrupt files). They were all ".lists" of some kind.
:D
Thanks everyone.
:)