Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.22 Severity: serious I was installing php5 while my system ran out of disk space. dpkg breaks, and leaves the system in a state where I can no longer use dpkg. To find out the version number of dpkg I used /var/log/dpkg.log, as I couldn't use dpkg to find it's own version number... Hope it's the correct one.
# grep dpkg dpkg.log | tail 2008-09-15 21:24:53 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:53 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:53 configure dpkg 1.14.22 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:53 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:54 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:54 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:54 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:54 status unpacked dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:54 status half-configured dpkg 1.14.22 2008-09-15 21:24:54 status installed dpkg 1.14.22 This is what happened: [...] Unpacking libcups2 (from .../libcups2_1.3.8-1lenny1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libssh2-1. Unpacking libssh2-1 (from .../libssh2-1_0.18-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libcurl3. Unpacking libcurl3 (from .../libcurl3_7.18.2-5_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libdatrie0. Unpacking libdatrie0 (from .../libdatrie0_0.1.3-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libjpeg62. Unpacking libjpeg62 (from .../libjpeg62_6b-14_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libjpeg62_6b-14_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/share/doc/libjpeg62/copyright': Disk quota exceeded Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21. Unpacking libdjvulibre21 (from .../libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-8_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-8_i386.deb (--unpack): failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libdjvulibre.so.21.0.0': Disk quota exceeded dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Selecting previously deselected package libxpm4. Unpacking libxpm4 (from .../libxpm4_1%3a3.5.7-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgd2-xpm. Unpacking libgd2-xpm (from .../libgd2-xpm_2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgd2-xpm_2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to flush /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i after padding: Disk quota exceeded Processing triggers for man-db ... /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/19933: Disk quota exceeded gdbm fatal: read error dpkg: failed to write status record about `libcairo2' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': Disk quota exceeded E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0119' near line 1: newline in field name `#padding' Press return to continue. # dpkg --configure -a dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0119' near line 1: newline in field name `#padding' # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]