Bug#285892: Error: files list file for package 'libatk1.0-0' is missing final newline

[J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 15:18:53 -0800, Ossama Khayat wrote:
> --- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Bugs like this are almost always local filesystem corruption, not the
> > fault of the package. /var/lib/dpkg/info/libatk1.0-0.list is corrupt.
> > I'd be inclined to remove that file and reinstall the package.
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> OK, works to an extent that lets me complete the upgrade but still I can't
> run any GTK/Gnome software including the desktop itself.
> I also get these messages during upgrade:
> - dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package 'libatk1.0-0' missing,
> assuming package has no files currently installed.
> - ldconfig: /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0.800.0 is not an ELF file - it has the
> wrong magic bytes at the start.

Are you sure you have reinstalled the package from a known to be good .deb
(md5sum checked against the Packages file)? It sounds like you haven't quite
reinstalled the package, or have reinstalled from a corrupted .deb .

Ray
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