[ubuntu-uk] dpkg error on libgmp10

[Colin Law]

On 8 November 2013 23:50, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I did this, and when it rebooted, it did disk
> checks, but then failed to mount anything, so I rebooted into Linux Mint
> (also installed on this PC) and did a disk check of Ubuntu from gparted,
> which did not find any errors.
>
> The good news is that when I rebooted again and booted into Ubuntu, it
> booted okay, and it offered the libgmp10 file in the Update Manager, so I
> installed it that way. I also did a sudo apt-get autoremove in a CLI and
> that worked too, so no more problems with dpkg it seems.

Strange symptoms like that (failing to boot after disc check and the
I/O errors) suggest there may be a hardware problem.  I suggest
running the Disk Utility (Known as Disks in the Dash) and check the
SMART data for the disk.  If that does not show anything but you find
other strange things happening then maybe open the box and reseat all
the cables.

Colin




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> David K
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> On 08/11/13 15:26, Colin Law wrote:
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> On 8 November 2013 15:23, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 8 November 2013 15:18, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
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> I am having a problem with updating any software on my Ubuntu Studio 12.04
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> There are various updates listed, but when trying to install them I get an
> error:
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> installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal
> error, aborting:
>  unable to open files list file for package `libgmp10': Input/output error
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
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> That file is corrupted.  It is just the downloaded deb file so you can
> safely delete it and it will be re-downloaded.
> sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/libgmp10_2%3a5.0.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
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> It might also be worth while forcing a disk check.
> sudo touch /forcefsck
> and re-boot.
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> Colin
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