slowjoe2
November 29th, 2015, 03:08 AM
Recurring error during every software install, removal or upgrade. See apt-get upgrade output below. (Possibly a corrupt file? System seems unstable lately, i.e., intermittent trouble booting and occasional crash.) Recently upgraded from the Pangolin LTS to the Tahr LTS. Thanks for any help!
joe@Frank:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apport apport-gtk dpkg grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common
icedtea-netx icedtea-netx-common im-config krb5-locales libdpkg-perl libffi6
libffi6:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libido3-0.1-0
libk5crypto3 libk5crypto3:i386 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0
libkrb5support0:i386 libmbim-glib0 libmm-glib0 libnautilus-extension1a
libpng12-0 libpng12-0:i386 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler-qt4-4 libpoppler44
libwhoopsie0 libxml2 libxml2:i386 libxml2-utils linux-firmware modemmanager
nautilus-data openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless poppler-utils
python-apport python-libxml2 python-problem-report python3-apport
python3-problem-report whoopsie
47 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/75.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 446 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:amd64' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
joe@Frank:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apport apport-gtk dpkg grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common
icedtea-netx icedtea-netx-common im-config krb5-locales libdpkg-perl libffi6
libffi6:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libido3-0.1-0
libk5crypto3 libk5crypto3:i386 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0
libkrb5support0:i386 libmbim-glib0 libmm-glib0 libnautilus-extension1a
libpng12-0 libpng12-0:i386 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler-qt4-4 libpoppler44
libwhoopsie0 libxml2 libxml2:i386 libxml2-utils linux-firmware modemmanager
nautilus-data openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jre-headless poppler-utils
python-apport python-libxml2 python-problem-report python3-apport
python3-problem-report whoopsie
47 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/75.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 446 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:amd64' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)