Re: Unable to fsync updated status of 'xxxxxx': Input/output error

1999-10-27 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:56:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 18:34 -0500 1999-10-26, David Welton wrote: > >Any idea why I might be getting this error from dpkg when trying to > >install packages? It seems to be sort of random... > > > >I straced it and it is indeed fsync failing. > generi

Re: Unable to fsync updated status of 'xxxxxx': Input/output error

1999-10-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 18:34 -0500 1999-10-26, David Welton wrote: Any idea why I might be getting this error from dpkg when trying to install packages? It seems to be sort of random... I straced it and it is indeed fsync failing. generic 2.3 kernel bug, I thought it was fixed by now. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Unable to fsync updated status of 'xxxxxx': Input/output error

1999-10-26 Thread David Welton
Any idea why I might be getting this error from dpkg when trying to install packages? It seems to be sort of random... I straced it and it is indeed fsync failing. This is on an unstable system that was brute force installed (uncompress base*.tgz). I have a feeling that this is the cause of the