Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

I've pulled the flash drive, and ran e2fsck on it, correcting the
errors that it found. I also emptied out a number of corrupt .list
files, as suggested earlier.
This is the error I get now:

# apt-get --reinstall install coreutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3181kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 21229 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace coreutils 5.97-5.3 (using
.../coreutils_5.97-5.3_arm.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement coreutils ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.3_arm.deb (--unpack):
unable to install (supposed) new info file
`/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/md5sums': Is a directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.3_arm.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Eric Higgins <erichiggins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not too worried about losing anything. It's an embedded device
which runs off a flash drive, and its only purpose is to act as a file
server for a mounted USB drive. I've checked the drive and it's fine,
but its entirely possible the flash drive has been corrupted.

# cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/wamerican.postinst
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by installdeb-wordlist

. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
SCRIPT="/usr/sbin/update-default-wordlist"

if [ "$1" = "configure" ] ; then
if [ -x "$SCRIPT" ]; then
$SCRIPT --rebuild
else
echo "Error: $SCRIPT not present or executable. Missing dependency on
dictionaries-common?" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
# End automatically added section

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Eric Higgins <erichiggins@xxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere:

It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a
filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system?

It looks like it got replaced by the postinst for wamerican. You
could just replace it with an empty file and then reinstall coreutils,
but you should be aware that this is probably some sort of filesystem
corruption. It's possible that this is the only thing that's wrong
and that you won't see any more problems, but I wouldn't count on it.
It's probably a good idea to back up any important data just in case
the situation gets worse.

Just out of curiosity: what happened to the postinst for wamerican?
It should be /var/lib/dpkg/info/wamerican.postinst.

Daniel


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