Re: Problems installing sarge packages on Zaurus SL C860

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:59:13AM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> I am trying to install some packages on a Zaurus SL C860
> where I am running a Debian Sarge as described on
> http://pocketworkstation.org/
> on a 1 GB SD card. I flashed Opie 1.2 as the base system.
> 
> I was able to perform "apt-get install thuban"
> which loaded quite some MBs. However, it turned
> out that thuban does not work so I decided to
> "apt-get build-dep thuban". This got struck somehow.
> I was able to install some of the packages manually,
> but e.g. this does does not work:
> 
> | ~# apt-get install python-dev
> | Reading Package Lists... Done
> | Building Dependency Tree... Done
> | The following extra packages will be installed:
> |   python2.3-dev
> | Suggested packages:
> |   libc6-dev libc-dev
> | The following NEW packages will be installed:
> |   python-dev python2.3-dev
> | 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 156 not upgraded.
> | Need to get 0B/1809kB of archives.
> | After unpacking 5837kB of additional disk space will be used.
> | Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> | dpkg: error processing
> | /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3-dev_2.3.4-13_arm.deb (--unpack):
> |  failed to rmdir/unlink `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci': Input/output error
> | dpkg: error processing
> | /var/cache/apt/archives/python-dev_2.3.4-4_all.deb (--unpack):
> |  failed to rmdir/unlink `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci': Input/output error
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.3-dev_2.3.4-13_arm.deb
> |  /var/cache/apt/archives/python-dev_2.3.4-4_all.deb
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I am a bit clueless about this. Any help/hint very much appreciated!

OK, this healed the situation for now:
rm /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci

It was a strange error message though. Maybe dpkg should handle
such situations?

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