package libkrb5-dev 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 failed to install/upgrade: failed to delete `/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system

[bijwaard]

libkrb5-dev:
  Installed: 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3
  Candidate: 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

I expected successful installation, but got this error.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: failed to delete `/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system
Package: libkrb5-dev 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3
SourcePackage: krb5
Title: package libkrb5-dev 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 failed to install/upgrade: failed to delete `/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-13-generic i686

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:07PM -0000, bijwaard wrote:
> ErrorMessage: failed to delete `/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system

A few lines above:

pkg: error processing libcupsys2-dev (--remove): failed to delete `/usr/share/doc/libcupsys2-dev/changelog.Debian.gz.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system
Removing libcups2-dev ...
dpkg: error processing libcups2-dev (--remove): failed to delete `/usr/lib/libcups.so.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system

You probably have a bigger problem in your system if /usr/ was turned into
a read-only file system. What's the ouput of the mount command? Do you
see any error messages in /var/log/kern.log?

  status incomplete

--
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com

[Russ Allbery (rra-debian)]

bijwaard <email address hidden> writes:

> Title: package libkrb5-dev 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 failed to install/upgrade: failed to delete `/usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system

That sounds like a problem with the file system on your local machine
rather than a problem with the package. Is /usr really read-only? If it
is read-only by policy, you will need to mount it read-write before
upgrading packages. If it is read-only due to file system errors, you
should investigate possible hardware failure on your system.

If it's not read-only, then something even more weird is going on, but
probably at the dpkg layer rather than at the level of the krb5 package.

--
Russ Allbery (<email address hidden>) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>