dpkg: warning: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit

Bug #1570717 reported by Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kubuntu-settings (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Undecided
Unassigned
plymouth (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Iain Lane

Bug Description

I got this

dpkg: warning: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit

on doing a dist-upgrade today 2016-04-15. I'm running Xenial 16.04. It seems base-files is where the warning happens, when I --reinstall it too:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall base-files
Les pakkelister ... Ferdig
Byggjer kravtre
Leser tilstandsinformasjon ... Ferdig
0 oppgraderte, 0 nyleg installerte, 1 installerte på nytt, 0 skal fjernast og 0 skal ikkje oppgraderast.
Må henta 0 B/68,7 kB med arkiv.
Etter denne operasjonen vil 0 B ekstra diskplass bli brukt.
(Les database ... 266010 filer og kataloger er for øyeblikket installerte.)
Preparing to unpack .../base-files_9.4ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking base-files (9.4ubuntu4) over (9.4ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text (0.9.2-3ubuntu11) ...
dpkg: advarsel: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for install-info (6.1.0.dfsg.1-5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu7) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-18-generic
Set opp base-files (9.4ubuntu4) ...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

There is a upload from Laney in the xenial queue to address this
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/253951119/plymouth_0.9.2-3ubuntu12_source.changes

affects: base-files (Ubuntu) → plymouth (Ubuntu)
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu12 was released with xenial.

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Rafael Jesus Alcantara Perez (rafa-dedaloingenieros) wrote :

Hi. I'm using plymouth 0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1 and the error is already happening.

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Histesh Shah (chimak111) wrote :

I'm seeing the version "'/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit" message as well on Kubuntu 16.04 today (August 1, 2017).

The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-files unattended-upgrades
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 101 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 base-files amd64 9.4ubuntu4.5 [68.4 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 unattended-upgrades all 0.90ubuntu0.7 [32.7 kB]
Fetched 101 kB in 1s (64.1 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 212942 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../base-files_9.4ubuntu4.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking base-files (9.4ubuntu4.5) over (9.4ubuntu4.4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.1.0.dfsg.1-5) ...
Processing triggers for cracklib-runtime (2.9.2-1build2) ...
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text (1:16.04ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: warning: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
rmdir: failed to remove '/lib/plymouth/': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text (0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-28-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin for module i915
Setting up base-files (9.4ubuntu4.5) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/issue ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/issue.net ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/lsb-release ...
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text (1:16.04ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: warning: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit
rmdir: failed to remove '/lib/plymouth/': No such file or directory
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text (0.9.2-3ubuntu13.1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.10.0-28-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin for module i915
(Reading database ... 212942 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../unattended-upgrades_0.90ubuntu0.7_all.deb ...
Unpacking unattended-upgrades (0.90ubuntu0.7) over (0.90ubuntu0.6) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu19) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up unattended-upgrades (0.90ubuntu0.7) ...

++++++++++++++

$ uname -a
Linux Dell-Inspiron-15-3567 4.10.0-28-generic #32~16.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 20 10:19:48 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

> I'm seeing the version "'/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not
> start with digit" message as well on Kubuntu 16.04 today (August 1, 2017).

<snip>

> Processing triggers for plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text (1:16.04ubuntu2) ...
> dpkg: warning: version '/etc/lsb-release' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit

The plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text package comes from a different source. Opening a task on that package.

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in kubuntu-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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