The package manager fail

[Kent Jonsson]

After a new installation of xubuntu i have some minor problems.
Linux-restricted-modules-2.2.20-15-generic has a problem and needs to reinstall.
I thought that i could repair with package manager but there a got the following message,

E: Läsfel - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

This is the first time i try a linux dist so im not shore of what to do now.

Rgds / Kent

Edit; i started xubuntu with recovery mod and now i dont get the linux r modul failure.
I still cant use the update programs .

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Doesn't look like a ubiquity bug; moving to Ubuntu apt. (However, "Input/output error" is usually a hardware problem, so the real fault may lie in your hard disk.)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I reassign to synaptic, this is what the error message displays.

Could you please try to open synaptic again and see if the problem is reproducable? the error looks like a memory or disk problem to me, so a fsck and a memory test would be good.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.