[Voyage-linux] dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:

[Darshaka Pathirana]

On 01/23/2010 08:36 PM, Nick L. wrote:
> I attempted an apt-get upgrade today on my Voyage/Alix installation as
> I saw that there was an update o MPD.
> 
> The following error messages appeared even after I attempted to
> install apt-utils:
> 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   apt-utils
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/188kB of archives.
> After this operation, 438kB of additional disk space will be used.
> debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
> Selecting previously deselected package apt-utils.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>  files list file for package `parprouted' is missing final newline
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> alix2:/home/nick#
> 
> Any way to recover from this?

Maybe this helps:

[1] http://bit.ly/6i5mUO

Greetings,
 - Darsha