Error message from update-manager

[Cariboo1938]

Hi

This is a Live, persistent USB installation that has the problem ?
YES!


Being run from a USB stick ?
YES!

Booted into a PC when powered on (or warm cycled) and the USB device is the first bootable boot device the BIOS sees?
YES!

Is that so ?
YES!

Hereby I confirm this.

Kind regards

[matt_symes]

Hi

Hereby I confirm this.

LoL. Much confusion there then It don't really use persistent USB sticks so....

.. however.

You could try deleting the file (tmp.i) using its inode.

You can also try debugfs to clear the inode of the file.

Make space on the stick by cleaning apt-caches and removing old kernels.

Kind regards

[Cariboo1938]

You could try deleting the file (tmp.i) using its inode.

You can also try debugfs to clear the inode of the file.

Make space on the stick by cleaning apt-caches and removing old kernels.

Kind regards

Hi,
Can I use
a) remove files with inode number
b) cleaning apt-caches
c) removing old kernels

on a FAT file system as it is on the USB stick?

[matt_symes]

Hi

Hi,
Can I use
a) remove files with inode number
b) cleaning apt-caches
c) removing old kernels

on a FAT file system as it is on the USB stick?

I'm really no expert here at all and i am hoping someone else will speak up.

I suggest trying it.

Kind regards

[Cariboo1938]

Find the inode# for "tmp.i" didn't work:

a)root@ubuntu:~# ls -i /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i
ls: cannot access /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i: Input/output error

b)root@ubuntu:~# cd /var/lib/dpkg/updates
root@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg/updates# ls -il
ls: cannot access tmp.i: Input/output error
total 0
? -????????? ? ? ? ? ? tmp.i

Though, in general inode#s are found on a FAT system

c)root@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg# ls -il
total 6197
10934 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Apr 19 15:21 alternatives
92343 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1487685 Apr 19 15:23 available
106933 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1487684 Apr 19 15:21 available-old
135832 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Mar 27 16:30 cmethopt
238483 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1610 Apr 15 11:37 diversions
238478 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1656 Apr 15 11:28 diversions-old
10701 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118784 Apr 19 15:23 info
237633 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Apr 24 10:34 lock
38674 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Dec 16 02:32 parts
135845 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 Mar 27 16:33 statoverride
92345 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1599966 Apr 19 15:29 status
237612 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1599966 Apr 19 15:27 status-old
10698 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Apr 19 15:26 triggers
10696 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Apr 19 15:29 updates

,and, for example, I could remove inode# 237633 - file "lock" and inode# 237612 - file "status-old"
and I could also remove files in directory, let's say 'alteratives'
but I could not remove directory updates containing the corrupted file tmp.i

root@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg# find . -inum 10696 -exec rmdir --ignore {} \;
find: `./updates/tmp.i': Input/output error
root@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg#

I finally decided to give up the idea to fix that and start over again with today released 12.04 LTS

@ matt
Thanks a lot for your patience and help. I learned a lot.
Cariboo