I noticed that suddenly my Synaptic and apt-get weren't installing any package on my new Ubuntu 10.04. On looking at the details, I found the following error being flashed:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
statoverride statoverride unknown group gnokii
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
I Googled and found the following two links:
1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508679
2. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-329560.html
From the two links above, I knew I had to see or even edit my /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride file.
It contained:
root mlocate 2755 /usr/bin/mlocate
hplip root 755 /var/run/hplip
root gnokii 4750 /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev
I deleted the last line "root gnokii 4750 /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev". But it gave a similar error:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
statoverride file contains empty line
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
This was shocking as the file isn't empty.
Then, I realized that my cursor was on an empty line. Doing a backspace and bringing it to the last non-empty line solved the problem, irrespective of the line "root gnokii 4750 /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev" being present in the file.
It wasn't a serious problem anyways.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
statoverride statoverride unknown group gnokii
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
I Googled and found the following two links:
1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508679
2. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-329560.html
From the two links above, I knew I had to see or even edit my /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride file.
It contained:
root mlocate 2755 /usr/bin/mlocate
hplip root 755 /var/run/hplip
root gnokii 4750 /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev
I deleted the last line "root gnokii 4750 /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev". But it gave a similar error:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
statoverride file contains empty line
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
This was shocking as the file isn't empty.
Then, I realized that my cursor was on an empty line. Doing a backspace and bringing it to the last non-empty line solved the problem, irrespective of the line "root gnokii 4750 /usr/sbin/mgnokiidev" being present in the file.
It wasn't a serious problem anyways.
unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
ReplyDeletefiles list file for package `com.ansonworks.flightbriefer' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
can you help gyromehta@hotmail.com
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t295396.html
ReplyDeleteit was solved by above link
sorry to bother
gyromehta@hotmail.com
Open your /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride file. See if any line is empty (I have already written about that, read above). If necessary, do a backspace to bring your cursor to the last non-empty line.
ReplyDeleteok, you configured your dpkg?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post. I'm actually looking for this. Your post solved my problem.
ReplyDeletesudo apt-get clean
ReplyDeletesudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install