Your message dated Tue, 16 Jun 2020 03:46:42 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#951479: [files list file for package 'base-passwd' is
missing final newline] [debian buster 10.3]
has caused the Debian Bug report #951479,
regarding [files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline]
[debian buster 10.3]
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Package: python-apt
Version: 1.8.4.1
Dear maintainers,
It seems there is a dependency issue (?) when installing python-apt as
indicated in following trace. On previous Debian buster (10.2), this
issue does not exist.
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# cat /etc/debian_version
10.3
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# grep -iR deb /etc/apt/sources* |grep -v "#"
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_update_security.list:deb
http://security.debian.org buster/updates main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_backports.list:deb
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_updates.list:deb
http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_previous.list:deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_apt_v_10_buster_current.list:deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# grep -R P /etc/apt/preferences* |grep -v "#"
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_systemd.pref:Package:
systemd
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_systemd.pref:Pin:
release *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_systemd.pref:Pin-Priority:
-1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_elogind.pref:Package:
elogind
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_elogind.pref:Pin:
release *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_elogind.pref:Pin-Priority:
-1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_dhcpcd5.pref:Package:
dhcpcd5
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_dhcpcd5.pref:Pin:
release *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster_no_dhcpcd5.pref:Pin-Priority:
-1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster/updates
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 920
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster-update
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 910
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 900
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=buster-backports
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: -1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=stretch
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: 400
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=testing
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: -1
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Package: *
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin: release
o=Debian,l=Debian,n=unstable
/etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences_debian_v_10_buster.pref:Pin-Priority: -1
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# apt update && apt upgrade
Hit:1 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Ign:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:3 http://security-cdn.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# dpkg -l |grep -v ii
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-==========================-===========================-============-===============================================================================
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# uname -a
Linux vm-ssh-190-factory 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1
(2020-01-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~# apt-get install --no-install-recommends
python-apt -y -q
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
dirmngr gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapt-inst2.0 libassuan0 libksba8 libnpth0
pinentry-curses
python-apt-common
Suggested packages:
dbus-user-session libpam-systemd pinentry-gnome3 tor parcimonie
xloadimage scdaemon pinentry-doc python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc
Recommended packages:
lsb-release iso-codes
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dirmngr gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client
gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm libapt-inst2.0 libassuan0 libksba8 libnpth0
pinentry-curses python-
python-apt-common
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7575 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package libassuan0:amd64.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'base-passwd' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
root@vm-ssh-190-factory:~#
Thanks in advance for your help
best regards
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, 2020-02-18 at 11:44:06 +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 04:49:44PM +0100, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
> > >Could you attach the old base-passwd.list file?
>
> > yes, in attached file.
Thanks for the additional information provided.
> That file has a sensible size, but consists of only zeroes. This typically
> happens with file systems that have metadata only journaling after a power
> loss, as the metadata update is covered by the journal and can be replayed,
> while the data write itself is lost.
>
> That can happen e.g. with ext4 in "data=writeback" mode, which is
> discouraged precisely for that reason.
Yes, that'd be my assumption as well, either that or as I mentioned
before hardware or similar problem. I'm thus going to close this. But
please feel free to reopen or open a new report in case the above is
not the case.
Thanks,
Guillem
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