update-manager crashes

Bug #220589 reported by Sergey
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

After installing a lot of updates on my computer with Ubuntu 7.10 and rebooting, update manager displays this error:
'E:Problem parsing dependency Depends, E:Error occurred while processing firefox (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-security_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

The same problem with Synaptic and apt-get utility

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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

What happens if you run 'sudo apt-get update'? Also what happens if you try again some time later, is the problem persistent?

Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Incomplete
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Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Just remembered, if you can reproduce the bug could you attach the file /var/log/apt/term.log from the failed session. This sounds similar to bug 220472 but it would be useful to compare logs

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Sergey (sergey-a-morozov) wrote :

I restored the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and update manager now opens without errors, but I can't install anything. For any package it displays a message: "files list file for package `firefox-gnome-support' is missing final newline".
'apt-get updates' works without problems.

Log file attached

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

The error was
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dselect_1.14.5ubuntu16_i386.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `firefox-gnome-support' is missing final newline

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 108189, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in update-manager:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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