aptdaemon error

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/10/04 23:18), William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz 
> <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp <mailto:thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>> wrote:
>
>     Good evening
>     I was trying really hard to install Virtualbox - basically with no
>     success at all.
>     Following the instructions Mr. NoOP has provided:
>     sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
>     linux-headers-`uname -r`
>     sudo apt-get install dkms
>     sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-4.3
>     wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo
>     apt-key add -
>     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
>     sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3
>
>
>     However, I noticed that
>     * the wall paper of the screen had disappeared
>     * there is the red icon (looking like "no thoroughfare") at the top of
>     the screen I have seen before. A problem I could resolve then
>     following
>     Mr. Colins advice.
>     * I get an error "An unhandable error seems to be a programming
>     error in
>     aptdaemon" appears
>     * googling shows, in the past this has been reported as a bug
>     * trying "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" ->
>     * I get another error: "dpkg was disrupted; you must use 'sudo dpkg
>     --configure -a' to fix the problem"
>     * trying that shows: "error reading package '/var/lib/dpkg/status'
>     Input/Output error
>
>     Does this (again!) sentence me to reinstallation from scratch (for the
>     10 millionth time)?
>     Or is there any chance, this can be solved?
>
>     Thank you.
>
>
> What is the output of df -h ?
>
Whatever this means ....
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       290G   45G  230G  17% /
none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev            2.0G  4.0K  2.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs           401M  1.4M  399M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            2.0G   76K  2.0G   1% /run/shm
none            100M   28K  100M   1% /run/user

>
> --
> W. Scott Lockwood III
>
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