app-install-data-commercial_7.3_all.deb: unable to open files list file for package `vino'

[Sulamita Garcia]

I'm not able to upgdate my system anymore due some errors similiar to those in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=352766 . I ran fsck, fixed lots of inodes, but I keep receiving this message:

(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `myspell-pt' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data-commercial_7.3_all.deb (--unpack):
unable to open files list file for package `vino': No such device or address
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data-commercial_7.3_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Sulamita Garcia (sulamita-garcia)]

Fixed.

I downloaded vino_2.18.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb, extracted the list of files with dpkg --contents, put the output in a file and replaced broken /var/lib/dpkg/info/vino.list file.

If anyone could explain why one broken file crashes the entire package management system, I would be glad to know. This error prevent me to install, upgrade or remove any package, from kernel-headers to scroobler.

[Boniek (boniek12p)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.