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dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 32239 package 'x11-common':

 end of file during value of field 'Conffiles' (missing final newline)

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I am quite new to linux and cant find anything on this issue. Thanks in advance for the help.

porkey27
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The text file /var/lib/dpkg/status is used as a database of installed packages. In this file, every line should be terminated by a newline character. The error indicates that it is not the case. This in turn tells us the file is damaged. Maybe Linux froze while an update was running, maybe the hard disk was 100% full (check with df -hl) and the file could not be written. There are probably other reason that could explain why the file is corrupted.

First try to understand what went wrong, in particular make sure you don't have a full disk.

Then, you need to recover from this situation. See this answer.

exore
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