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Required Information
- DietPi version | G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=10
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=3
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=3
G_GITBRANCH=‘master’
G_GITOWNER=‘MichaIng’
G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[0]=‘applied’
G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[1]=‘applied’
G_LIVE_PATCH_STATUS[2]=‘applied’ - Distro version | trixie 0
- Kernel version | Linux DietPi 6.12.75+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.75-1+rpt1 (2026-03-11) aarch64 GNU/Linux
- Architecture | arm64
- SBC model | RPi 3 Model B+ (aarch64)
- Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)
- SD card used | ( SanDisk ultra)
Additional Information (if applicable)
- Software title | (unbound, adguard,openssh )
- Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? updated/migrated
- Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi? No
- Bug report ID | 173d7e1e-36e7-49dd-9806-639553f58cdf
Steps to reproduce
dietpi-upgrade
Expected behaviour
upgrade success
Actual behaviour
[FAILED] DietPi-Update | APT upgrade
- Command: apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs upgrade
Extra details
- …
[ INFO ] DietPi-Update | APT upgrade, please wait...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libpython3.13 linux-image-6.12.75+rpt-rpi-v8
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-base-6.18.34+rpt-rpi-v8 linux-base-rpi-v8
linux-image-6.18.34+rpt-rpi-v8
The following packages will be upgraded:
7zip apache2-utils base-files bash bind9-dnsutils bind9-host bind9-libs curl
e2fsprogs firmware-atheros firmware-brcm80211 firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-mediatek firmware-realtek gpg gpgconf initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core libc-bin libc-l10n libc6 libcap2
libcap2-bin libcom-err2 libcurl3t64-gnutls libcurl4t64 libext2fs2t64
libgcrypt20 libgnutls30t64 libgpiolib0 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3
libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblzma5 libnghttp2-14 libpython3.13
libpython3.13-minimal libpython3.13-stdlib libss2 libssh2-1t64 libssl3t64
libsystemd-shared libsystemd0 libtasn1-6 libudev1 libxml2 linux-image-rpi-v8
locales logsave nano openssh-client openssh-server openssh-sftp-server
openssl openssl-provider-legacy python3.13 python3.13-minimal raspi-firmware
raspi-utils-core rsync sed sudo systemd systemd-sysv systemd-timesyncd
tzdata udev unbound wireless-regdb
Preconfiguring packages ...
71 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/193 MB of archives.
After this operation, 150 MB of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: (Reading database ...
files list file for package 'init-system-helpers' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
[FAILED] DietPi-Update | APT upgrade
- Command: apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs upgrade