dpkg error for login package during aptitude upgrade
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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shadow (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 8.10
Linux jbaker-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Apt-get or aptitude upgrade crashes with error:
E: /var/cache/
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
files list file for package `libtimedate-perl' is missing final newline
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
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:
Changed in shadow (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Please attach the contents of /var/log/apt to this bug report.
Thanks in advance