I attempted to install "liblircclient0" on Intrepid. Install failed.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lirc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: lirc
This is a clean install of Ubuntu Intrepid on an Acer Aspire One machine. The only thing I've installed myself, other than the standard package updates suggested by synaptic since install, is "linux-
Here are the last few lines of /var/log/
Log started: 2009-02-09 22:49:06
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
files list file for package `tcpd' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
Log ended: 2009-02-09 22:49:09
And here is the output of the command "apt-cache policy lirc":
lirc:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.8.4a-
Version table:
0.
500 http://
0.8.3-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
And here is the output of "apt-cache policy liblircclient0":
liblircclient0:
Installed: 0.8.3-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.8.4a-
Version table:
0.
500 http://
*** 0.8.3-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu12
gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
libc6 2.8~20080505-
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: files list file for package `tcpd' is missing final newline
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: liblircclient0 0.8.3-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: lirc
Title: package liblircclient0 0.8.3-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `tcpd' is missing final newline
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
I'd like to note that this bug actually shouldn't belong with the package 'lirc' -- the real problem, as shown in the log I pasted, is the error message "files list file for package `tcpd' is missing final newline". I'd be happy to dig further into what exactly is wrong, if someone could point me in the right direction.