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I had a problem during launching my Ubuntu this morning (but after choosing "try to repair" during booting it's finally started). Unfortunately more problems occurred during upgrade:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade [sudo] password for majkel:  Reading package
lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state
information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages
will be upgraded:   bsdutils ca-certificates compiz compiz-core
compiz-gnome   compiz-plugins-default e2fslibs e2fsprogs libblkid1
libcomerr2   libcomerr2:i386 libcompizconfig0 libdecoration0 libmount1
libsmbclient   libss2 libunity-core-6.0-9 libuuid1 libuuid1:i386
libwbclient0 mount   python-compizconfig python-samba samba-common
samba-common-bin samba-libs   smbclient sysdig ubuntu-docs unity
unity-services util-linux uuid-runtime 33 upgraded, 0 newly installed,
0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/13,2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 951 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do
you want to continue? [Y/n]  Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libvisual-0.4-plugins:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files
currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libvisio-0.0-0' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libpcrecpp0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libvorbis0a:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libupstart1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libunity-misc4'
missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg:
warning: files list file for package 'libvisual-0.4-0:amd64' missing;
assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files
list file for package 'libv4lconvert0:amd64' missing; assuming package
has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for
package 'libglib2.0-bin' missing; assuming package has no files
currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libunity-webapps0' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libunity-protocol-private0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no
files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libnss3-1d:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libupower-glib1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files
currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libvorbisenc2:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'liburl-dispatcher1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files
currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libuuid-perl' missing; assuming package has no files currently
installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libunity9:amd64'
missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg:
warning: files list file for package 'liburi-perl' missing; assuming
package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list
file for package 'libusb-1.0-0:amd64' missing; assuming package has no
files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package
'libunity-action-qt1: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 'libusbmuxd2'
missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg:
warning: files list file for package 'libutempter0' missing; assuming
package has no files currently installed dpkg: unrecoverable fatal
error, aborting:  unable to open files list file for package
`libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop': No such device E: Sub-process
/usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I have even tried:

sudo apt-get install libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop Reading package
lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state
information... Done libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop is already the
newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not
upgraded.

(unfortunately with --reinstall it doesn't work, too) how could I properly update my Ubuntu?

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the right solution is described at: https://urbanjack.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/fix-unable-to-open-files-list-file-for-package-inputoutput-error/

  1. cd /var/lib/dpkg
  2. cp status stauts.backup
  3. sudo nano status
  4. ctrl + w for SEARCH enter the package name example “python2.6-minimal”
  5. Delete the complete package block (with ctrl-k you can remove a complete line) example (removed context)

Package: <*****> Status: purge ok installed Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 1234 Maintainer: Bla Bla Architecture: all Source: oxygen-icons Version: 1:2.3.5-0rasp1~berry1 Suggests: kdebase (>= 1:2.3.4-1) Description: Bla la bla Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ Original-Maintainer: Peter Püppel

  1. Save: ctrl + o …. enter …. ctrl + x …for exit
  2. sudo dpkg –configure -a
  3. sudo apt-get -f install and then
  4. sudo apt-get update
  5. sudo apt-get upgrade

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