system freeze installing libxine1

[Todd Slater]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 05:36:24PM -0400, Todd Deshane wrote:
> 
>    On 6/26/05, Todd Slater <[1]dontodd at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:02:54AM -0400, Todd Deshane wrote:
>      >
>      >    On 6/23/05, Todd Slater <[1]dontodd@[2]columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>      >
>      >      I try to keep my system up to date, but I haven't been able
>      to
>      >      install
>      >      recent updates because my system freezes when trying to
>      install
>      >      libxine1.
>      >      When I run the update util (red icon notifying me updates
>      are
>      >      available), it says some packages will be held back and that
>      I need
>      >      to
>      >      run apt-get dist-upgrade or synaptic smart upgrade. Since I
>      >      couldn't
>      >      find anything like that in synaptic, I ran apt-get.
>      >
>      >      The smart upgrade option is in Settings->Preferences->
>      System
>      >    Upgrade:
>      >     but I don't think that is the problem that you are after.
>      >    try this
>      >     sudo apt-cache --installed rdepends libxine1
>      >    that should tell you which packages (filtering on the
>      >    installed ones) that depend on libxine1
>      >    for me it is only gxine.
>      >    then you can decide if you want to remove that package
>      >    and libxine1
>      sudo apt-cache --installed rdepends libxine1 reports that nothing
>      depends on
>      libxine1.
>      So I tried removing it but got a message that the package was badly
>      broken and needed re-installed.
>      sudo apt-get install libxine1 dies on error:
>      Get:1 [3]http://security.ubuntu.com hoary-security/main libxine1
>      1.0-1ubuntu3.1 [3750kB]
>      Fetched 3750kB in 13s (281kB/s)
>      Preconfiguring packages ...
>      Selecting previously deselected package libxine1.
>      (Reading database ... 101668 files and directories currently
>      installed.)
>      Preparing to replace libxine1 1.0-1ubuntu3 (using
>      .../libxine1_1.0-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ...
>      Unpacking replacement libxine1 ...
>      dpkg: error processing
>      /var/cache/apt/archives/libxine1_1.0-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
>      (--unpack):
>      unable to install new version of
>      `./usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/post':
>      Input/output error
>      dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>      Errors were encountered while processing:
>      /var/cache/apt/archives/libxine1_1.0- 1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
>      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>      sudo apt-get remove libxine1 reports:
>      Removing libxine1 ...
>      dpkg: error processing libxine1 (--remove):
>      cannot remove `/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_nsf.so':
>      Permission denied
>      Errors were encountered while processing:
>      libxine1
>      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>      I seem to be running around in circles here; I can't remove it
>      until I
>      fix it, but I can't fix it!
>      Thanks for your help,
>      Todd
> 
>    Sounds like it is in some broken state....
>    did you try: sudo apt-get -f install ?
>    What are the permissions on
>    /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0//xineplug_decode_nsf.so ?
>    try to change the permissions and run the remove
>    again.

Permissions on /usr/lib/xine and subdirs are drwxr-xr-x (root:root).

However, I can't "see" anything in /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/:

todd at mercury:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/ ls:
/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_mad.so: Permission denied
ls: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_nsf.so: Permission
denied

I tried to reinstall with -f option, but the system froze again. I don't
understand a permission denied error on ls.

Todd