I am running into this problem on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (focal) when
running `dpkg --configure -a`, which is hanging when setting up `base-
files`. From diagnosis so far, it appears `dpkg --configure -a` runs
`/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst`, which runs `deb-systemd-invoke
start
Public bug reported:
eog fails to open PNG file. After about 25 seconds, it gives up and
says:
Failed to register: Timeout was reached
You can find the relevant image at:
I can add some information to the latest comment:
- An integrity check of the medium did not find any errors
- A hardware check (memory) did not find any errors
- The filesystem errors were SquashFS: unable to read inode and some others,
about 8 times for every command
- Clicking on any icon or