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Title: apt should recommend to use apt-get clean in some error cases Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Initially I was upgrading Ubuntu using apt-get and the upgrade of smbclient failed. Im running ubuntu 12.04 (upgraded from 10.04). This is an annoying error since although I never run smbclient myself an error icon is now permanently displayed on the barat the top of my desktop: "An error occurred. Please run Package Manager ...". Here is the output when I retry the upgrade using apt-get -f install: The following packages will be upgraded: smbclient 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 39 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/14.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 9,216 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 393766 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace smbclient 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.8 (using .../smbclient_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement smbclient ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed to read on buffer copy for failed to write to pipe in copy: Input/output error dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/smbclient_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.9_i386.deb (--unpack): short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/bin/smbget' No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/smbclient_2%3a3.6.3-2ubuntu2.9_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [end of output] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1261117/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp