Apt-get update error, Too many links - Broken pipe & error code (1)

[del <fsck@beeb.net>]

Hello all,

Please, how do I fix this problem which I have had since the update was
issued - running otherwise up-to-date Sarge and have never had any
problem updating anything before.

And to learn, what are the errors talking about?

ergot:/home/imp# apt-get upgrade;echo RESULT=$?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ssh
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/689kB of archives.
After unpacking 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 113418 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ssh 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4 (using
.../ssh_1%3a3.8.1p1-8.sarge.6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ssh
... dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.8.1p1-8.sarge.6_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to make backup link of `./usr/bin/ssh-argv0' before installing
new version: Too many links dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal
(Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.8.1p1-8.sarge.6_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
RESULT=100
ergot:/home/imp#

Thanks.
 
del

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