Thanks for your report. There are many "short read" and "corrupted filesystem tarfile" this is due to either a corrupted archive (problems occured during download, bad media, ...) or a corrupted filesystem .
Can you please open a terminal try the following: $ sudo apt-get clean $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install tzdata You may also have to finish the previous failed install with : $ sudo apt-get upgrade Tell us if it works. Thanks in advance. ** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- package tzdata 2008e-1ubuntu0.8.04 failed to install/upgrade: short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Guyana') https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs