package junit4 4.8.1-3 failed to install/upgrade: cannot access archive: No such file or directory

[Chris Boyle]

Binary package hint: junit4

Updated/upgraded using aptitude, because I wanted to set all the chromium-daily packages to Hold due to a version/dependency inconsistency between them. No other unusual actions taken in this run.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: junit4 4.8.1-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 22 08:17:31 2010
Dependencies: libhamcrest-java 1.1-4
ErrorMessage: cannot access archive: No such file or directory
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: junit4
Title: package junit4 4.8.1-3 failed to install/upgrade: cannot access archive: No such file or directory

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get clean

Then try performing the update again. This will likely resolve your issue, but the failure can be caused by filesystem or memory corruption. So please also run a fsck on your filesystem(s) and a memory test. If this does resolve your bug please set its status to Invalid. Thanks in advance!

[Chris Boyle (cmb)]

I've not seen this error or anything similar since. Setting invalid.