*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1960582 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960582
I had the same yesterday for a fresh new installed Ubuntu 22.04.
Maybe it helps to have information, that the file it complained about in
/var/lib/dpkg/ was
dpkg -> /var/lib/dpkg
This was definitely not created by myself, but by the system
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960583
Title:
dpkg error while processing - can't install nor upgrade
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
My current ubuntu version :
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (development branch)
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Issue :
when `sudo apt update` is ok, all newest package is downloaded
but `sudo apt ugprade` show current error : ]
sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
librygel-renderer-2.6-2 librygel-server-2.6-2 rygel
The following packages will be upgraded:
bolt code deja-dup enchant-2 fwupd gdm3 gir1.2-gdm-1.0
gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-nma-1.0
gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 gjs gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl
gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-x initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core iputils-ping iputils-tracepath
language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en
libenchant-2-2 libfwupd2 libfwupdplugin5 libgdm1 libgjs0g
libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200
libnl-route-3-200 libnm0 libnma-common libnma0
libpkcs11-helper1 libseccomp2 libunistring2 libunistring2:i386
libupower-glib3 media-types nano network-manager
network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu python3-paramiko
python3-software-properties simple-scan
software-properties-common software-properties-gtk upower
56 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
10 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/94,6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1.928 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up dpkg (1.21.1ubuntu1) ...
head: error reading 'dpkg': Is a directory
dpkg: error processing package dpkg (--configure):
installed dpkg package post-installation script subprocess returned error
exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
dpkg
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
i have to resintall all of the package in cache with `sudo dpkg -i
/var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
`, but the cache sometimes is not the newest packages
and when i rerun `sudo apt upgrade`, there is still not the newest package
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