package language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:9.04+20090320 failed to install/upgrade:

[Sam Law]

Binary package hint: language-pack-gnome-de-base

Update running on Ubuntu 9.0.4b livecd

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy language-pack-gnome-de-base
language-pack-gnome-de-base:
  Installed: 1:9.04+20090320
  Candidate: 1:9.04+20090413
  Version table:
     1:9.04+20090413 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
 *** 1:9.04+20090320 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Update failed with a crash.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: failed in buffer_write(fd) (11, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-media-2.0.mo'
Package: language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:9.04+20090320
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-pack-gnome-de-base
Title: package language-pack-gnome-de-base 1:9.04+20090320 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

Looking at the attached dpkg-log, the following line shows the following reason for this problem:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/language-pack-gnome-de-base_1%3a9.04+20090413_all.deb (--unpack):
 failed in buffer_write(fd) (11, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/locale-langpack/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-media-2.0.mo': No space left on device

"no space left on device" means that simply the disk ran out of space here, I don't think this is a problem of the package itself.

Therefore I am closing this as duplicate of a bug where the error message is discussed, please try to make more space available on your harddrive and then try again.

If you think there is a problem with too much space usage somewhere, please create a separate bug report that provides the relevant information.

See also Bug #312491 which discusses improving the error message in this case.