I just had this happen when I had insufficient disk space on /boot.
That doesn't seem to be your problem. However, I have also had a
similar problem when there was enough disk space, but the file system
had reached the limit for the maximum number of files allowed -- try
looking into that. My sol
Public bug reported:
Description:Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release:12.04
Installed: 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
Candidate: 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
Version table:
*** 1.16.1.2ubuntu7 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Trying to