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.