apt should recommend to use apt-get clean in some error cases
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
apt (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Initially I was upgrading Ubuntu using apt-get and the upgrade of smbclient failed. Im running ubuntu 12.04 (upgraded from 10.04). This is an annoying error since although I never run smbclient myself an error icon is now permanently displayed on the barat the top of my desktop: "An error occurred. Please run Package Manager ...".
Here is the output when I retry the upgrade using apt-get -f install:
The following packages will be upgraded:
smbclient
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
39 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/14.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 9,216 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 393766 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace smbclient 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.8 (using .../smbclient_
Unpacking replacement smbclient ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to read on buffer copy for failed to write to pipe in copy: Input/output error
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/bin/smbget'
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
[end of output]
affects: | update-manager (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- Upgrade of smbclient fails + apt should recommend to use apt-get clean in some error cases |
Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: i386 precise |
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