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.

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