`iputils-arping' contains empty filename

[Al Cantu @ NDI]

Binary package hint: apparmor

I am trying to install the Bynari neonInsight mail server on ubuntu 8.04. Their software will not install if AppArmor is enabled. I tried to disable AppArmor using Synaptic Package Manager, It may not be an AppArmor bug, but possibly a bug with another package. I get the following error:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/iputils-ping_3%3a20071127-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 files list file for package `iputils-arping' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/iputils-ping_3%3a20071127-1_amd64.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

I performed a Google search for a workaround, but I could not find one so far.

Per the directions below:
bagside@ndxubu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
Release: 8.04
bagside@ndxubu:~$ apt-cache policy apparmor
apparmor:
  Installed: 2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.2
  Candidate: 2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.2
  Version table:
 *** 2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.1+1075-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
bagside@ndxubu:~$ apt-cache policy iputils-ping
iputils-ping:
  Installed: 3:20071127-1
  Candidate: 3:20071127-1
  Version table:
 *** 3:20071127-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 26 14:06:46 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: files list file for package `iputils-arping' contains empty filename
Package: apparmor-utils 2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: apparmor
Title: package apparmor-utils 2.1+1075-0ubuntu9.2 failed to install/upgrade: files list file for package `iputils-arping' contains empty filename
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic x86_64

[Al Cantu @ NDI (acantu-ndx)]

Per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor I tried the following:

sudo invoke-rc.d apparmor kill

Which gave the following message:

Killing AppArmor module - failed, AppArmor is builtin: Failed.

I then tried:

sudo update-rc.d -f apparmor remove

Which seemed to work. I was able to install neonInsight after a reboot.
I am not sure if the issue with Synaptic and iptools-ping is still there, but I am willing to try whatever is suggested.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.