[Bug 1076387] Re: Oneiric to Precise upgrade fails with 'files list file for package libmetacity-private0 is missing final newline' message

[Brian Murray]

The file seems to have become corrupt either during the upload or on
disk for the system.  Perhaps you could check the md5sum of it via
'md5sum /var/lib/dpkg/info/libmetacity-private0.list'?

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Oneiric to Precise upgrade fails with 'files list file for package
  libmetacity-private0 is missing final newline' message

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  /usr/bin/dpkg returns an error code (2) encountered in Oneiric to
  precise upgrade due to

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 433, in install_archives
      install_progress.startUpdate()
  AttributeError: 'NonInteractiveInstallProgress' object has no attribute 'startUpdate'

  The apt-term log contains the following error message
  (Reading database ... 70%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
   files list file for package 'libmetacity-private0' is missing final newline

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.152.25.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-23.39-generic 3.0.36
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-23-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Nov  8 15:06:25 2012
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-11-07 (0 days ago)

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