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binskipy2u
April 23rd, 2009, 05:57 PM
I added all repos, from software sources....etc..
and i picked all i wanted to install..and i get this error after download..

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debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": could not open /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
failed to open diversions file: Stale NFS file handle
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
failed to open diversions file: Stale NFS file handle


ive rebooted, picked one package at a time, just inc ase
and same error..

thanks

binskipy2u
April 24th, 2009, 05:02 AM
im bumping myself..dont want to reinstall if this is something simple i could fix or if anyone else had the same issue and "fixed" it so to speak
thanks

Cerny
April 27th, 2009, 03:33 AM
Yah, I'm encountering the same issue on my machine after I did an upgrade. Here is the error I'm getting.



chris@Dreamy:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad liblucene2-java
The following packages will be upgraded:
bluetooth bluez bluez-alsa bluez-cups bluez-gstreamer bluez-utils consolekit
gnome-system-tools libbluetooth3 libck-connector0 libgweather-common
libgweather1 libpam-ck-connector notification-daemon pidgin-libnotify wine
16 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/12.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 336kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `libnspr4-0d-dbg': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)



I've tried this multiple ways using the update manager or the terminal and I end up with the same error either way.