On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:45:17AM +0200, Martin Hansen said:
> > Try running memtest or one of the other hardwre checker 
> > programs on your
> > machine for a few hours - this smells of bad RAM to me.  Or is /tmp
> > full?  I am not sure that would cause the errors seen, but something
> > wierd is going on.
> > 
> How does hdparm differ from other packages?
> Hdparm is the only one that fails. I have upgraded at least 100 other
> packages while hdparm has just been hanging there. None of the other
> packages failed.
> 
> dustpuppy:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdd1              34G   19G   14G  58% /
> tmpfs                 501M  4.0K  501M   1% /dev/shm

Pease send the output of 
dpkg -D3 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/hdparm_6.1-1_i386.deb

(assuming the deb is there, of course)
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