my sarge system won't update
I'm attempting to update my mail server which runs debian sarge,
postfix, etc.
However this time it is not working. I did the usual `aptitude update;
aptitude upgrade`
I'm looking for some help out of this, I'm at a loss being a relative
newbie to debian and dpkg.
I should note the the 'getent' command seems to have disappeared and I
don't know why. dpkg -C does not show any problems. What should I do
to fix this?
...
Fetched 88.0MB in 4m18s (340kB/s)
Can't exec "locale": Input/output error at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 12.
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 13.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 84339 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace locales 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 (using
.../locales_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4_all.deb (--unpack):
unable to stat `./usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo' (which I was
about to install): Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 (using
.../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to stat `./usr/sbin/iconvconfig' (which I was about to install):
Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/locales_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
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