aptdaemon error
Thomas Blasejewicz
thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp
Sat Oct 4 16:23:06 UTC 2014
(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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