Unable to install from repositories since Heron upgrade

[Her Ghost]

I upgraded to Hardy Heron last night and everything went well.

Now though, when I try to install _any_ application from the Add/Remove programs menu, I get this error:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libhiglayout-java_1.0-2ubuntu1_all.deb: files list file for package `transmission-common' is missing final newline

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks!


edit:

more detailed error

[SunnyRabbiera]

well this could be in part to the server overload, with everyone wanting to try hardy it is causing issues with the repositories.

[PmDematagoda]

Do:-

sudo apt-get clean

and then:-

sudo apt-get install -f

followed by:-

sudo dpkg --configure -a

See if the error persists after it is done.

[Her Ghost]

Do:-

sudo apt-get clean

and then:-

sudo apt-get install -f

followed by:-

sudo dpkg --configure -a

See if the error persists after it is done.

hi, thanks for the advice. after these steps I get the same error message...

[Tatty]

It might be worth checking your ram for any failures. Reboot then at grub it should give you an option to do a memtest.

[Her Ghost]

more detail:

sudo apt-get clean

returns no result.

sudo apt-get install -f

returns:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libglib1.2ldbl libstdc++5 gnome-bin libgtk1.2 libgnome32 gnome-libs-data
  libart2 libgnorbagtk0 gdk-imlib1 python-qt3 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libgif4
  python-sip4 libgnomeui32 libxml1 libdb3 libgtk1.2-common imlib-base
  python-setuptools liborbit0 gdk-imlib11 python-pkg-resources
  libgnomesupport0 gcc-3.3-base libgnorba27 libsmpeg0 libungif4g
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

sudo dpkg --configure -a

returns no result


if, as apt-get install -f suggests, I run apt-get autoremove, this happens:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libglib1.2ldbl libstdc++5 gnome-bin libgtk1.2 libgnome32 gnome-libs-data
  libart2 libgnorbagtk0 gdk-imlib1 python-qt3 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libgif4
  python-sip4 libgnomeui32 libxml1 libdb3 libgtk1.2-common imlib-base
  python-setuptools liborbit0 gdk-imlib11 python-pkg-resources
  libgnomesupport0 gcc-3.3-base libgnorba27 libsmpeg0 libungif4g
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gcc-3.3-base gdk-imlib1 gdk-imlib11 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data imlib-base
  libart2 libdb3 libgif4 libglib1.2ldbl libgnome32 libgnomesupport0
  libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common liborbit0
  libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsmpeg0 libstdc++5 libungif4g libxml1 python-pkg-resources
  python-qt3 python-setuptools python-sip4
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 27 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 32.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing libstdc++5 (--remove):
 files list file for package `transmission-common' is missing final newline
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:252: process_queue: Assertion `!queuelen' failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

[Her Ghost]

It might be worth checking your ram for any failures. Reboot then at grub it should give you an option to do a memtest.

I will try that now - thanks

[PmDematagoda]

Could you post the output of:-

cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep transmission-common

[Her Ghost]

Could you post the output of:-

cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep transmission-common

memtest was fine.

output from above command:

Package: transmission-common
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.5.14), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.9.4-2), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-1), libx11-6, libxrender1, transmission-common (= 1.06-0ubuntu4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)

[zvacet]

Did you in synaptic mark for install transmission or transmission-common?if you selected transmission-common then delete it from synaptic and install package transmission.If you alleady did that and still have problems then try

sudo apt-get install  libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libssl0.9.8 libx11-6 libxrender1 transmission-common  zlib1g