Re: bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:21:23 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Really? I thought *I* wrote that. Wait, I did. :-) I think you mail > > attribution processing isn't configured right. > > I don't understand this. My copy of my own post (as received in my e-mail > of posts to de

Re: bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:21:23 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Really? I thought *I* wrote that. Wait, I did. :-) I think you mail > attribution processing isn't configured right. I don't understand this. My copy of my own post (as received in my e-mail of posts to debian-user) had this line just a

Re: bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:44:11 + (UTC), I wrote: > > That isn't a good error message. I think your disk is failing. > > Review your /var/log/syslog and look for error messages there. I > > expect you will see other errors logged there. Really? I thought *I* wrote that.

Re: bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:42:15 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > > I'm not sure how to interpret all of that output, but it looks bad. > Thanks for your help. I agree with Bob. It would be a good plan to be ready to replace the disk and restore from backup at any moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:44:11 + (UTC), I wrote: > ... I often get bad downloads when I run apt-get upgrade. > ... > dd /dev/null > dd: reading `standard input': Input/output error On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:49:24 -0600, Bob Proulx replied: > That isn't a good error message. I think your disk i

Re: bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Kleene wrote: > dd /dev/null > dd: reading `standard input': Input/output error That isn't a good error message. I think your disk is failing. Review your /var/log/syslog and look for error messages there. I expect you will see other errors logged there. If you don't have a good backup

bad downloads during apt-get upgrade

2011-10-24 Thread Steve Kleene
On just one of my three Wheezy machines, I often get bad downloads when I run apt-get upgrade. This started abruptly seven weeks ago. The general form of the apt-get error includes this: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/[package].deb (--unpack): short read on buffer copy for b