Colin David wrote: > > I ran dpkg -l, dpkg --audit, got a bus error On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'd be rather concerned about that last one. Are you sure you haven't > got disk corruption or memory problems? An I/O error points to the > former. Can you 'less /var/lib/dpkg/status' and scroll down to the end > without errors? Nope, I get wierd stuff when I try that. I just checked, I get a read error, and sum fails with an i/o error. Someone suggested removing it and trying again. I think I'll back up my data some place else and reboot, then fsck the disk. What do you think? David > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:10:03 +0100 > From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody > Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:10:13 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:07:59PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > > elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > elentari:~# > > > > I'm fishing here, but you might want to try to strace something that's > giving this bus error and see where it's breaking. > > -- > Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
