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[Brian Chidester <brian.chidester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What are the specs on you machine? And you are running the factory
installed image from dell correct? I have never seen this issue before
so it makes me think that it is something specific to system, possibly
some corrupted data or a physically damaged ssd.

** Changed in: dell-mini
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: dell-mini
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Henry Hall (hlh)

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Upgrading fails on login 1:4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370499
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Status in Dell Inspiron Mini with Custom Dell UI: Confirmed

Bug description:
Upgrading is failing.  The Upgrade Manager gives this error:

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 105644 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace login 1:4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2 (using .../login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement login ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb (--unpack):
 error creating directory `./usr/share/man/sv/man8': Input/output error
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb: error creating directory `./usr/share/man/sv/man8'

apt-get upgrade gives about the same result.  Trying to manually touch or create the directory fails with an Input/output error.  So does re-downloading the file or trying to install it manually.

# dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb
(Reading database ... 105644 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace login 1:4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2 (using .../login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement login ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb (--install):
 error creating directory `./usr/share/man/sv/man8': Input/output error
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/login_1%3a4.0.18.2-1ubuntu2.2netbook0build1_lpia.deb

It looks like it is trying to install a Swedish man page, probably not a high priority for most.  I'm hesitant to try to uninstall a package called 'login' to try and unstick the system.  It is a security problem because it prevents me from upgrading.