Hello Paul, Here are the results of commands requested., the last not
looking useful but perhaps it tells you something,
geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop:~$ sudo df
[sudo] password for geoffrey:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 957432452 78607048 830167536 9% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1926972 4 1926968 1% /dev
tmpfs 387312 1168 386144 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1936548 168 1936380 1% /run/shm
none 102400 56 102344 1% /run/user
geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop:~$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 60809216 401258 60407958 1% /
none 213680 2 213678 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 208893 511 208382 1% /dev
tmpfs 213680 517 213163 1% /run
none 213680 3 213677 1% /run/lock
none 213680 7 213673 1% /run/shm
none 213680 30 213650 1% /run/user
geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop:~$ dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop:~$
As you see I have a 1.0 TB HDD which is 9% full.
By the way I again tried installing the application 'Octave' this time
to see if it supplied any further information on the error. It did but
the info may be specific to Octave. Anyway here is the error message:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting
reading file list for package 'gedit-common':
input/output error Error in function
Should I have to re-install 14.04 it seems that I can't download the
latest from the server because of the dpkg problem. Therefore I must use
the 14.04 disk that I have and re-load the current Home directory from
my external back-up HDD. I think that means I will lose Firefox and
Thunderbird stored information and re-install programmes, some of which
have valuable databases fortunately stored in the home directory. And
of course I will have to update 14.04 - all achievable if a little pesky.
Thanks for your time, Geoffrey
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