I also believe the filesystem was corrupted on the usb stick. The stick had never been removed while running. I have since replaced the contents with various later lucid live installs.
** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- package gnome-disk-utility 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: unable to stat `./usr/share/gnome/help' (which I was about to install): Input/output error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560810 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs