package linux-firmware 1.127.4 failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode' to '/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream

[Dexter Quan Soon]

/usr/share/menu/lxrandr: missing required tag: "section"
Skipping file because of errors...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.127.5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-firmware 1.127.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 23 13:41:08 2014
Dependencies:

DuplicateSignature: package:linux-firmware:1.127.4:cannot copy extracted data for './lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode' to '/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
ErrorMessage: cannot copy extracted data for './lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode' to '/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-26 (88 days ago)
InstallationMedia: It
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: linux-firmware
Title: package linux-firmware 1.127.4 failed to install/upgrade: cannot copy extracted data for './lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode' to '/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-100-5.ucode.dpkg-new': unexpected end of file or stream
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

It appears the .deb file is corrupt.

You may need to run the following:

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

Then re-install the package.

If that does not resolve your issue, please mark the bug as "Confirmed"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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