package gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory

[Claus7]

Binary package hint: gcc-4.4

Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

gcc-4.4-base:
  Installed: 4.4.1-4ubuntu6
  Candidate: 4.4.1-4ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 4.4.1-4ubuntu6 0
        500 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I was expecting this package to update normally.
Instead it crushed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 4 15:41:40 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: gcc-4.4
Title: package gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Claus7 (lastexile7gr)]

What I did to avoid this, was to go to synaptic and from the down left corner I chose the option Status and then broken packages. I updated them and and I anew started the updated process from the icon in the toolbar.

The next step was to have a new bug for python this time. I closed the update process and I opened once again synaptic and updated my whole system from there. The update went ok and smooth. The icon in the toolbar did not disappear, yet after all this, when I clicked on it, it said that there were no more updates for my system. So, I think that that way someone can bypass this issue.

In synaptic I have installed both gcc-4.4-base and gcc-4.3-base.

I have karmic since alpha 5 or 6 and I do all the updates in the meantime.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

not a gcc error