dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'x' missing
I get this warning for several packages every time I install any package or perform apt-get upgrade. Not sure what is causing it; it's a fresh Debian install on my OpenVZ server and I haven't changed any dpkg settings.
Here's an example:
root@debian:~# apt-get install cowsay
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
filters
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cowsay
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 21.9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 91.1 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main cowsay all 3.03+dfsg1-4 [21.9 kB]
Fetched 21.9 kB in 0s (70.2 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package cowsay.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libssh2-1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libkrb5-3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libwrap0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libcap2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpam-ck-connector:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libc6:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libtalloc2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libselinux1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libp11-kit0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-client3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libbz2-1.0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpcre3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgpm2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgnutls26:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-common3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libcroco3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'liblzma5:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpaper1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsensors4:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libbsd0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-common-data:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libss2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libblkid1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libslang2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libacl1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libcomerr2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libkrb5support0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'e2fslibs:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'librtmp0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libidn11:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpcap0.8:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libattr1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libdevmapper1.02.1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'odbcinst1debian2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libexpat1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libltdl7:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libkeyutils1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libcups2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsqlite3-0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libck-connector0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'zlib1g:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libnl1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libfontconfig1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libudev0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsepol1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libmagic1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libk5crypto3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libunistring0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgpg-error0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libusb-0.1-4:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpam0g:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libpopt0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgssapi-krb5-2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgeoip1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libcurl3-gnutls:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libtasn1-3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libuuid1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgcrypt11:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libgdbm3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libdbus-1-3:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libsysfs2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libfreetype6:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 21908 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cowsay (from .../cowsay_3.03+dfsg1-4_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up cowsay (3.03+dfsg1-4) ...
root@debian:~#
Everything works fine, but these warning messages are pretty annoying. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep libssh:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327 Sep 21 15:51 libssh2-1.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 359 Aug 15 06:06 libssh2-1.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 135 Aug 15 06:06 libssh2-1.postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132 Aug 15 06:06 libssh2-1.postrm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Aug 15 06:06 libssh2-1.shlibs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4377 Aug 15 06:06 libssh2-1.symbols
He fixed it reinstalling the files that appeared there. So you might want to try something like this:
for package in $(apt-get upgrade 2>&1 |\
grep "warning: files list file for package '" |\
grep -Po "[^'\n ]+'" | grep -Po "[^']+"); do
apt-get install --reinstall "$package";
done
Copy-paste friendly in one line:
for package in $(apt-get upgrade 2>&1 | grep "warning: files list file for package '" | grep -Po "[^'\n ]+'" | grep -Po "[^']+"); do apt-get install --reinstall "$package"; done
Be aware, that running this command takes some time, as we cycle through every package.
In some cases apt upgrade doesn't show the errors therefore you can reinstall one package (for example x) which gives the error and execute like this:
for package in $(apt-get install --reinstall x 2>&1 |\
grep "warning: files list file for package '" |\
grep -Po "[^'\n ]+'" | grep -Po "[^']+"); do
apt-get install --reinstall "$package";
done
Above answer didn't worked for me completely. Couple of packages, namely libc6, were still showing this error.
I found a solution on one forum. Bug is that new version of libc didn't echoed list of files to correct file. Instead of echoing it to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6:amd64.list it echoed it to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.list
It can be fixed by running (adjust for your latest version and arch of libc6):
dpkg-deb -c /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-38_amd64.deb | awk {'print $6'} | cut -f2- -d. | sed 's|^/$|/.|' | sed 's|/$||' > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6:amd64.list
Source: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=93201
Good luck to whoever would read this in future and finds it usable.