[Bug 591339] Re: system crashes leaving following message "tarfile corrupt "

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.  It seems that there was an error on your system when
trying to install a particular package.  Please execute the following
command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get clean

Then try performing the update again.  This will likely resolve your
issue, but the failure could be caused by filesystem or memory
corruption.  So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a
memory test.  If this does resolve your bug please set its status to
Invalid.  Thanks in advance!

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  system crashes leaving following message "tarfile corrupt "

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: yelp

  this is the message I received when installing openjdk-6-jdk

  corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive 
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) 
  Errors were encountered while processing: 
   /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jdk_6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1_i386.deb 
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  please advise me what to do to proceed as I'm new to Ubuntu & Linux.
  Oh nearly forgot my system is Lucid lynx newly installed

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