Subj : Re: dpkg error, what to do about it?
To   : Chris Green
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Sat Jan 25 2025 12:18:39

On 25/01/2025 11:22, Chris Green wrote:
> I just installed pigpiod in a Pi 4B and got the following error:-
>
>      root@homepi# apt install pigpiod
>      Reading package lists... Done
>      Building dependency tree... Done
>      Reading state information... Done
>      The following additional packages will be installed:
>        libpigpio1
>      The following NEW packages will be installed:
>        libpigpio1 pigpiod
>      0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
>      Need to get 99.4 kB of archives.
>      After this operation, 331 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>      Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>      Get:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm/main arm64
>      libpigpio1 arm64 1.79-1+rpt1 [89.2 kB]
>      Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bookworm/main arm64
>      pigpiod arm64 1.79-1+rpt1 [10.3 kB]
>      Fetched 99.4 kB in 0s (800 kB/s)
>      Selecting previously unselected package libpigpio1.
>      dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>       files list file for package 'libasyncns0:arm64' is missing final
>      newline
>      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>      root@homepi#
>
> That looks a bit worrying.  It feels as if maybe some sort of clear
> out and re-installation might clear things up, but I'm not quite sure
> what.
>
Looks to me like an error in the package  files.

"files list file for package 'libasyncns0:arm64' is missing final newline"

Seems pretty conclusive

Contact the upstream maintainer


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