broken package libgdu0

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 10:40 +0100, PaulCarter wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm in need of some help with package updating, please.
> 
> I was running ubuntu 10.4 until a few weeks ago. Then I thought, OK,
> I'll upgrade to 11.04 and went through the 10.10 and 11.04 upgrade
> processes. No problems so far.
> 
> Then last week's update failed to complete.
> 
> This process left a couple of distorted entries in /var/lib/dpkg/status,
> as shown by 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'. I edited these to something I
> thought was logical and the 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' ran with no
> complaints.
> 
> It seems that libgdu0 has a broken file list as shown by synaptic, which
> shows no files in the package.
> 
> What should I do next to recover this package's file list?
> 
> Here's some process feedback -
> 
> paulc at wildlife:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgdu0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 37 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 90.5 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main libgdu0 i386
> 2.32.1-0ubuntu4 [90.5 kB]
> Fetched 90.5 kB in 0s (476 kB/s)
> (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>  unable to open files list file for package `libgdu0': No such device or
> address
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
> Any help in getting this sorted would be gratefully received.

sudo apt-get -f install && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

???

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