cannot install or uninstall

[ilove0211]

Binary package hint: update-manager

this may have been a due to a disk problem
i cannot install, uninstall, or update any package

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 21 14:39:37 2010
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: unable to create updated files list file for package gcc-4.4-base: No such file or directory
Package: gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gcc-4.4
Title: package gcc-4.4-base 4.4.1-4ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: unable to create updated files list file for package gcc-4.4-base: No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[ilove0211 (spartan-039)]

DpkgTerminalLog.txt is the important file to look at

[Daniel Hollocher (chogydan)]

try this: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/5435

It looks like the data on your drive got pwned, for whatever reason (check to see if you have /var/lib/dpkg). That link in answers.launchpad describes how to reinstall all the packages that are complaining, in order to recreate all the missing files(See the last couple posts). You may want to just skip that, backup your files, and reinstall entirely.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Could you please let us know whether the suggestion of Daniel in the previous comment did solve your problem?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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