package ttf-sil-gentium None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-sil-gentium.list] failed to install/upgrade:

[David Boe]

Binary package hint: ttf-sil-gentium

don't have any further info...

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 8 05:45:46 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: no package named `ttf-sil-gentium' is installed, cannot configure
Package: ttf-sil-gentium None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-sil-gentium.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ttf-sil-gentium
Title: package ttf-sil-gentium None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-sil-gentium.list] failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The error is:
=====
Selecting previously deselected package ttf-sil-gentium.
Unpacking ttf-sil-gentium (from .../ttf-sil-gentium_1.02+dfsg-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): error in buffer_read(stream): failed to write to pipe in copy: Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-sil-gentium_1.02+dfsg-4_all.deb (--unpack):
 short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-gentium/GenAI102.ttf')
=====

It seems to be due to a corrupted archive. Could you please try the following commands:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-sil-gentium

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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!