Comment 55 for bug 346691

The saga continues:
- cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
- apt-get -f install runs fine
root@kolibri:~# apt-get install wireshark tshark vim-full compizconfig-settings-manager mc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libadns1 liblua5.1-0 libruby1.8 menu python-compizconfig tcl8.4 vim-gnome
  vim-gui-common vim-runtime wireshark-common
Suggested packages:
  adns-tools arj xpdf dbview odt2txt tclreadline cscope vim-doc ttf-dejavu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  compizconfig-settings-manager libadns1 liblua5.1-0 libruby1.8 mc menu
  python-compizconfig tcl8.4 tshark vim-full vim-gnome vim-gui-common
  vim-runtime wireshark wireshark-common
0 upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/26.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 104MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Selecting previously deselected package libadns1.
(Reading database ... 101625 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libadns1 (from .../libadns1_1.4-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package liblua5.1-0.
Unpacking liblua5.1-0 (from .../liblua5.1-0_5.1.4-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libruby1.8.
Unpacking libruby1.8 (from .../libruby1.8_1.8.7.72-3_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mc.
Unpacking mc (from .../mc_2%3a4.6.2~git20080311-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package menu.
Unpacking menu (from .../menu_2.1.41ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package tcl8.4.
Unpacking tcl8.4 (from .../tcl8.4_8.4.19-2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package wireshark-common.
Unpacking wireshark-common (from .../wireshark-common_1.0.7-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package tshark.
Unpacking tshark (from .../tshark_1.0.7-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package vim-gui-common.
Unpacking vim-gui-common (from .../vim-gui-common_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package vim-runtime.
Unpacking vim-runtime (from .../vim-runtime_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/help.txt to /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/help.txt.vim-tiny by vim-runtime'
Adding `diversion of /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/tags to /usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/tags.vim-tiny by vim-runtime'
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-runtime_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_all.deb (--unpack):
 short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/vim/vim72/doc/tags')
Selecting previously deselected package wireshark.
Unpacking wireshark (from .../wireshark_1.0.7-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-compizconfig.
Unpacking python-compizconfig (from .../python-compizconfig_0.8.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package compizconfig-settings-manager.
Unpacking compizconfig-settings-manager (from .../compizconfig-settings-manager_0.8.2-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package vim-gnome.
Unpacking vim-gnome (from .../vim-gnome_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package vim-full.
Unpacking vim-full (from .../vim-full_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-runtime_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
- rm /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-runtime_2%3a7.2.079-1ubuntu5_all.deb
- root@kolibri:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  vim-runtime
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vim-runtime
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
14 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 5809kB of archives.
After this operation, 25.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main vim-runtime 2:7.2.079-1ubuntu5 [5809kB]
Fetched 5809kB in 3s (1726kB/s)
Segmentation fault

The whole system is really unstable and as the problem seems to be on filesystem level I wouldn't use it in production until the problem is fixed. Strange enough I haven't seen this problem on 64 bit desktop systems but only on this 64bit laptop.