package libcommons-lang-java (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/java/commons-lang-2.6.jar'

[Michael Robinson]

No idea what happened, although usually I get this error when starting up ubuntu.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libcommons-lang-java (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 29 16:59:44 2012
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Unpacking libcommons-lang-java (from .../libcommons-lang-java_2.6-3ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
 dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:4>: invalid block type'
 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcommons-lang-java_2.6-3ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
  short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/java/commons-lang-2.6.jar'
DuplicateSignature:
 Unpacking libcommons-lang-java (from .../libcommons-lang-java_2.6-3ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
 dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:4>: invalid block type'
 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcommons-lang-java_2.6-3ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
  short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/java/commons-lang-2.6.jar'
ErrorMessage: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/java/commons-lang-2.6.jar'
SourcePackage: libcommons-lang-java
Title: package libcommons-lang-java (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/java/commons-lang-2.6.jar'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get clean

Then try performing the update again. This will likely resolve your issue, but the failure could be caused by filesystem or memory corruption. So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a memory test. Thanks in advance!

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