On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:31:35AM +0000, Luca Koroll wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 9.9+deb9u11 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the > base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am > unable to install any new packages. > There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when > installing base-files. > > apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the > packages are correct. > > The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't > be installed: incorrect message > There is no further error code or information.
Seems like a bug in dpkg, not base-files. Is there any improvement if you "rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci" and try again?
