strange upgrade bugs with "cannot access archive: No such file or directory"

[Savvas Radevic]

Maybe one of the following:
1. Not enough free space?
2. Problems with ext4? (Maybe the file got corrupt during a hard reboot?)
3. Maybe they have adsl or cable internet with limited
downloading/uploading. Perhaps once they reached the limit, the file was
downloaded as an HTML page or something of that sort. ("E: Read error - read
(9: Bad file descriptor)")

For (2), I had a totally weird bug once and the question still remains
between ext4 and dpkg: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338607

It was a one-time thing and never happened again. But I still think it was
ext4. :)

2010/1/18 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com>

> hi folks,
>
> While going through my bugmail I've noticed a number of bugs with the
> same pattern that are assigned to various packages by bug triagers. All
> Terminal logs look like this:
>
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libmp3lame0_3.98.2+debian-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
>  cannot access archive: No such file or directory
>
> With googling it seems that the following bugs follow that pattern.
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lame/+bug/446801
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cabextract/+bug/471901
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/suitesparse/+bug/307078
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xvidcore/+bug/446807
>
> I'm a big puzzled how these failures can happen. Did the file somehow
> got deleted during the install process? I cannot imagine that some user
> is calling an 'apt-get clean' deliberatly simultanous to running an
> dist-upgrade, so I suspect something else is doing this.
>
> Moreover, perhaps bugsquad has some infrastructure to batch-process this
> kind of bugs?
>
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> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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