broken package libgdu0

[PaulCarter]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 21:08 +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> 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
> 
> ???
> 
> -- 
> yankdownunder
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> 
> 

Thanks Stephen,

I split the command up as it seems sudo should prefix each part.

First 2 parts ran correctly. The upgrade part failed as before -

Extract templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(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)