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Thread: Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2

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    Exclamation Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2

    Hello everyone,

    I just installed new Jaunty on my old laptop Dell Latitude D600. everything seems to work apart from when I want to install something. I cannot install anything. Forget about installing something, I can't even get the updates.

    At the end I get the following error code:

    Code:
    deepu@newleaf:~$ sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Suggested packages:
      konqueror-nsplugins msttcorefonts ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      adobe-flashplugin
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 152 not upgraded.
    Need to get 3964kB of archives.
    After this operation, 10.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com jaunty/partner adobe-flashplugin 10.0.22.87-2jaunty1 [3964kB]
    Fetched 3964kB in 10s (361kB/s)                                                                                                                             
    Selecting previously deselected package adobe-flashplugin.
    (Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
     failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `perl-modules': Input/output error
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
    this is what I got when i tried to get the adobe flash plugin for instance, but I get the same error for everything.

    Please some help me out here.

    Thanks!
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    Re: Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2

    bump
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    Re: Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2

    Hi, open a terminal and try
    Code:
    sudo apt-get clean
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
    If that does not work then try reinstalling perl-modules.
    Code:
    sudo apt-get --reinstall install perl-modules
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    Re: Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2

    Open up a terminal, and run:
    Code:
    sudo dpkg --force-all -r perl-modules

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