Hi Francisco, I am going to test my disk using Philip's suggestion. But, I am not sure I am following you. Are you suggesting me to update my current because this problem was found and fixed lately or you are just suggesting so because it's a good practice to keep our copy updated?
Thanks Salil On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Francisco Valladolid H. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > you have to update your -current version of OpenBSD also. > both kernel and system base. > > Regards. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Salil Wadnerkar <[email protected]> wrote: >>> When I try to delete this partial package, I get these errors: >> ... >>> File /usr/local/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/pkg.c8llMmPSGl does not >>> exist >>> Read failed: Input/output error at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/md5.pm line 59 >>> I checked the source code. It is some coe that adds a file into some >>> data structure (most probably, it is finding out which files to >>> delete) and it fails to do so because the file is no longer there. >>> >>> How do I get rid of this partial package? >> >> The error message "Input/output error" indicates that the error is for >> some other file which does exist but for which the kernel is reporting >> an I/O error. That suggests that you have some sort of disk problem. >> Has the kernel reported anything to dmesg? If dmesg doesn't show >> anything, then I would fsck all your filesystems and, if that doesn't >> find anything, do a read check by dd'ing the raw partitions to >> /dev/null and see what that turns up. >> >> >> Philip Guenther >> > > > > -- > Francisco Valladolid H. > -- http://blog.bsdguy.net - Jesus Christ follower.

