Dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'x&

Question

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 with lubunut desktop environment. I had the following problem for more than 3 days when I do apt-get upgrade. I don't know what is problem means and how to solve.

Note: 3 days before I try upgrade Linux-header-4.4.66, but it showed an error. I deleted it. Now, I'm back to Linux-header-4.4.64, which worked fine before.

Error on sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (only last 15 line of 500+ line error):

dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libxcb-xkb1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libvorbis-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libavahi-core7:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 37151 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb ...
Adding 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin'
dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting '/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2' with
  different file '/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches', not allowed
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Answer 1

I solved this problem at last night. If you know Chinese, you can read this solution on my blog. I'll detail it here with my poor English.

• Create three files in you desktop or anywhere you want.

  fix.sh
  txt
  fixit.py
  

• Add contents in these files

  1. fix.sh: Just an Empty file.

  2. txt: Copy your log into this file with '\n' to separate each line. Just like this:

     dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libxcb-xkb1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed 
     dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libvorbis-dev:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
     

  3. fixit.py: fill the file with the following contents.

     #!/usr/bin/env python
         # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
         __author__ = 'Fitzeng'
         import re
         def main():
             fix = open('fix.sh', 'w+')
             for line in open("txt"):
                 pkg = re.match(re.compile('''dpkg: warning: files list file for package '(.+)' '''), line)
                 if pkg:
                     cmd = "sudo apt-get install --reinstall " + pkg.group(1)
                     fix.write(cmd + '\n')
         if __name__ == "__main__":
             main()
     

• Execute these file.

  chmod 777 *
  python fixit.py
  ./fix.sh
  

OK, problem solved. Actually, you'll find you could alternately just reinstall these packages. So, you can fix it in many ways.