update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in rmtree(): [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/var/cache/apt-xapian-index/index.1/synonym.baseB'

[Aleksiy]

installArchives() failed: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 unable to create `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i': Input/output error

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apt-xapian-index 0.44ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.305
Date: Sun Mar 4 08:05:17 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index --batch-mode --force
ProcEnviron:

PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index', '--batch-mode', '--force']
SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with OSError in rmtree(): [Errno 5] Input/output error: '/var/cache/apt-xapian-index/index.1/synonym.baseB'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.