Re: dpkg error, what to do about it?

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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