aptdaemon error

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp>
wrote:

> Good evening
> I was trying really hard to install Virtualbox - basically with no
> success at all.
> Following the instructions Mr. NoOP has provided:
> sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev linux-headers-`uname -r`
> sudo apt-get install dkms
> sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-4.3
> wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo
> apt-key add -
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3
>
>
> However, I noticed that
> * the wall paper of the screen had disappeared
> * there is the red icon (looking like "no thoroughfare") at the top of
> the screen I have seen before. A problem I could resolve then following
> Mr. Colins advice.
> * I get an error "An unhandable error seems to be a programming error in
> aptdaemon" appears
> * googling shows, in the past this has been reported as a bug
> * trying "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" ->
> * I get another error: "dpkg was disrupted; you must use 'sudo dpkg
> --configure -a' to fix the problem"
> * trying that shows: "error reading package '/var/lib/dpkg/status'
> Input/Output error
>
> Does this (again!) sentence me to reinstallation from scratch (for the
> 10 millionth time)?
> Or is there any chance, this can be solved?
>
> Thank you.
>

What is the output of df -h ?


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W. Scott Lockwood III
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