xserver-xorg broken packaged in update-manager (26/04)

[Marco Paulo Martins Sousa]

Today i update my dapper bia update-manager and the packaged break here....

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Preconfiguring packages ...
/tmp/xserver-xorg.config.72631: line 973: syntax error near unexpected token `)'xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 2
(Reading database ... 82554 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 7.0.0-0ubuntu30 (using .../xserver-xorg_7.0.0-0ubuntu31_i386.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config: line 973: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_7.0.0-0ubuntu31_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_7.0.0-0ubuntu31_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco)]

should be fixed on the next update in an hour or two (it was a typo)

[madko (madko77)]

after this upgrade and a reboot gdm failed to start Xsession. .Xsessions-errors contains:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "madko"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied

[madko (madko77)]

ok sudo chmod 777 /tmp fixed it. don't know why permission on /tmp has changed.

[Sulamita Garcia (sulamita-garcia)]

I'm having the same problem, but to any package I need to install or upgrade. I follow the tips in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=352766, to run fsck, but after that I still have the problem.

(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `myspell-pt' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data-commercial_7.3_all.deb (--unpack):
unable to open files list file for package `vino': No such device or address
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/app-install-data-commercial_7.3_all.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)