package audacity (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for fout in dpkg-deb tijdens `./usr/bin/audacity'

[stijn]

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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: audacity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-15.66-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-15-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 21 19:49:02 2012
ErrorMessage: short read on buffer copy for fout in dpkg-deb tijdens `./usr/bin/audacity'
InstallationMedia: Zorin OS 5.2 32bit - Release i386
SourcePackage: audacity
Title: package audacity (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for fout in dpkg-deb tijdens `./usr/bin/audacity'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This is either a bug in dpkg or failure of your system (corrupted file or similar).

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> This is either a bug in dpkg or failure of your system (corrupted file
> or similar).

The latter. See
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/27/deciphering-one-of-dpkgs-weirdest-errors-short-read-on-buffer-copy/

Please do "apt-get clean" and retry the upgrade, it will usually fix the
corrutpted file

 status invalid

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