I am quite sure this was caused by the following dpkg bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575891 I have /var on btrfs and the symptoms match exactly.
The dpkg bug is fixed and in Lucid there is an updated package which includes the fix. The remaining questions are: - Will this fix be backported to the other supported ubuntu versions? - How can ubuntu make sure that everyone affected by this gets their installations repaired? The problem is that you have to do a reinstall of all installed packages which means you have to download every package and reinstall them afterwards. How to fix this is described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575891#39 Because the dpkg bug is fixed this can be reduced to: # Reinstall (almost) everything at once. aptitude reinstall '~i !~E !~prequired !x11-common' # These have dependency loops, so must be reinstalled singly. for i in `aptitude search -F %p '~i(~E|~prequired|x11-common)'` do aptitude reinstall $i done Note that I do not (yet) have tested the described workaround myself. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #575891 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575891 ** Package changed: udev (Ubuntu) => dpkg (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: dpkg via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575891 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- divertion of /sbin/udevadm is not fixed after udev install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/563260 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
