apt-get hassle

[Andrew Otte]

On Saturday 20 May 2006 12:41, Tez wrote:
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install dpkg
Here is what happened.
> sudo apt-get --reinstall install dpkg
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 97 not
> upgraded. Need to get 1866kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main dpkg 1.13.11ubuntu6 [1866kB]
> Fetched 1866kB in 37s (49.9kB/s)
> (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.11ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to
> open files list file for package `example-content': Input/output error
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.11ubuntu6_i386.deb
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any other ideas?
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Andrew Otte
Laildey, Queensland
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otte at optusnet.com.au
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