Ok, drive space isn't the issue. What about df-i -- W Scott Lockwood III GWB2009033817 <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 4, 2014 11:23 AM, "Thomas Blasejewicz" <<a href="mailto:thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp">thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> (2014/10/04 23:18), William Scott Lockwood III wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz <<a href="mailto:thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp" target="_blank">thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp" target="_blank">thomas@s7.dion.ne.jp</a>>> 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 <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc" target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc</a> -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 ? </blockquote> 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 <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -- W. Scott Lockwood III </blockquote> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>