Thanks for your fast response. Removing the folder did not help unfortunately. The folder is temporary and is removed after dpkg-installation-process.
Is there a way to safely reinstall base-files without having to reinstall the whole system? > -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- > Von: Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> > Datum: Mi., 12. Feb. 2020, 12:50 > An: Luca Koroll <cont...@lucakoroll.de>, 951...@bugs.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Bug#951200: base-files: unable to upgrade, conffile error > 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? >
