aplications crasing later updating linux-generic

Bug #283992 reported by Alex-Musicman
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newt (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

Some aplications like open office and firefox was closing with errors later updating the new linux-generic packages and apt-get autoremove was crashing when trying remove old linux-generic packages..
Now... for time being it's all normal..

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 15 16:20:57 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: files list file for package `libnewt0.52' is missing final newline
Package: linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic 2.6.24-19.41
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic 2.6.24-19.41 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `libnewt0.52' is missing final newline
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

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Alex-Musicman (alex-musicman) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Affecting to newt since it seems to be the root cause of the failure. The filelist for libnewt0.52 may be corrupted.

There is a solution for this kind of issue at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2635193&postcount=12

Please report here when it's done. Thanks.

Changed in linux:
status: New → Incomplete
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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. 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.

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