package ubuntu-standard 1.124 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `linux-image-2.6.27-8-eeepc' is missing final newline

[kdb424]

Afterhaving a reboot fail, and having a hard reboot, no single apt-get procedure that installed or removed data would work.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: files list file for package `linux-image-2.6.27-8-eeepc' is missing final newline
Package: ubuntu-standard 1.124
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
Title: package ubuntu-standard 1.124 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `linux-image-2.6.27-8-eeepc' is missing final newline
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686