hallo Sebastian! sorry for replying so late. I tried to work around the problem, but.. nothing to do. now i'm up to 11 packages to upgrade, and the problem seems to be xmodmap
here's to you the full terminal output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 6.10 _Edgy Eft_ - Release i386 (20061025) edgy/main Translation-en_US Ign cdrom://Ubuntu 6.10 _Edgy Eft_ - Release i386 (20061025) edgy/restricted Translation-en_US Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com edgy-commercial Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://archive.canonical.com edgy-commercial/main Translation-en_US Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_US Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Translation-en_US Hit http://archive.canonical.com edgy-commercial Release Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Translation-en_US Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Translation-en_US Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security Release Hit http://archive.canonical.com edgy-commercial/main Packages Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Translation-en_US Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates Release Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/restricted Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/universe Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/main Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-updates/restricted Sources Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/main Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/restricted Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/universe Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com edgy-backports/multiverse Packages Fetched 5B in 2s (2B/s) Reading package lists... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: cli-common libc6 libc6-i686 libpoppler1 libpoppler1-glib libtotem-plparser1 poppler-utils totem totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla tzdata 11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/7638kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.4-1ubuntu12.2_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to open files list file for package `xmodmap': Input/output error Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.4-1ubuntu12.2_i386.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) thanks, isa -- can't get updates: too many errors processing archives https://launchpad.net/bugs/80720 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
