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Brian Chidester wrote:
> 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.
>   
My machine is a stock Dell 9 with a 4 GB SSD, upgraded to 2 GB of RAM.  
The machine was dropped once when I fell down some stairs on March 31, 
but the netbook doesn't appear to have suffered any damage other than 
the mouse battery popping out.  Durability is a major reason I chose a 
SSD.  The issue didn't occur for a month after my accident shortly after 
Dell released a torrent of upgrade downloads after not offering any 
updated packages for a long time.

 I was running the factory installed Hardy, but with some packages 
removed (games, OOs, I believe) and others added.  Obviously, with only 
a 4 GB HD for / & /home I couldn't go too hog-wild with packages.  
Eventually I kept getting the same message and neither the Force option 
nor uninstalling would unplug apt so I couldn't use the package 
manager.  I ran it like that for about a month but got tired of it and 
eventually installed Jaunty which works nicely.
> ** 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.