Public bug reported: Whenever trying to install software, the error in the title is returned.
An example: ch...@deepthought:~$ sudo apt-get install liferea Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: liblua5.1-0 liferea-data The following NEW packages will be installed: liblua5.1-0 liferea liferea-data 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/809kB of archives. After this operation, 3834kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Selecting previously deselected package liblua5.1-0. (Reading database ... 30%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unable to open files list file for package `libdecoration0': Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) ch...@deepthought:~$ This extends to updates ch...@deepthought:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: nvidia-180-modaliases nvidia-185-modaliases 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 30.4kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main nvidia-185-modaliases 185.18.36-0ubuntu1 [16.3kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main nvidia-180-modaliases 185.18.36-0ubuntu1 [14.2kB] Fetched 30.4kB in 0s (49.4kB/s) (Reading database ... 30%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unable to open files list file for package `libdecoration0': Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) ch...@deepthought:~$ apt.log from /var/log/dist-upgrade/ is included, but under no circumstances was I able to copy the only other file, apt-term.log. I can not install any packaged software nor update, so obviously this is a serious bug. Any other information is available upon request. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: dpkg error upgrade -- E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) in Karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417856 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
