aptdaemon error

[William Scott Lockwood III]

Ok, drive space isn't the issue. What about df-i

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W Scott Lockwood III
GWB2009033817
On Oct 4, 2014 11:23 AM, "Thomas Blasejewicz" <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:

>
> (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
>
>
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>> W. Scott Lockwood III
>>
>>
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