Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > > Hello all-- > > I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt > seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice > would be most welcome. > > crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Unable to write mmap - msync (5 Input/output error) > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Hi, I don't think this has anything to do with apt. >From msync man page : "msync flushes changes made to the in-core copy of a file that was mapped into memory using mmap(2) back to disk." So i think you should check your hard drive, seems like it's has bad blocks. try dd if=/dev/yourharddrive of=/dev/null If you have some errors , you hard drive is most likely to have bad blocks. Thanks, Philippe
