[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#445725: alsa-utils: Breaks every APT action

[Mathias Brodala]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.14-2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

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I know this sounds weird, but somehow alsa-utils breaks every action I try to do
with APT. For example simply trying to install gedit:

> Selecting previously deselected package gedit-common.
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gedit-common_2.18.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  unable to open files list file for package `alsa-utils': No such device or
>  address
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/gedit-common_2.18.2-1_all.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This error appears with every action, be it install, remove or anything else.
Any help is highly appreciated since I cannot do anything ATM.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20070604-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.14a-2      ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20070908-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.14-2       base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-24         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.3-pre11-4    tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  pciutils                  1:2.2.4-1.1    Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python                    2.4.4-6        An interactive high-level object-o
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
pn  alsa-base                     <none>     (no description available)

- -- no debconf information

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