HI,
I often meet the problem for broken package, need a more detail on apt-get and dpkg tools

Here is the last pb,
My laptop stopped suddenly, (forgot to plug power!!! ), while I was installing gdm package,

I got after that the problem, in libdmx1, I have tryed several option to remove it, reinstall it
I tryed dpkg --force-all -r libdmx1, I tryed to force install, force remove,

I always got the error:

Package is in very bad inconsistent state-- you should try reinstalling it
before attempting a removal

Reading database .... 30%dpkg; unreocverable fatal error , aborting
files list file for package 'libdmx1' is missing final newline.


I tryed dpkg --reconfigure -a
and again apt-get install libdmx1 same error

Thanks for help
best regards
bela

I fixed the problem, thanks grepmasterd, I found a good hint,
a "}" is missed in file /var/lib/dpkg/info/libdmx1.list !!!!!!

thanks again