Re: IO Error during APT use

[Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:55:05 -0600
bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) wrote:

Thanks Bob!

> Rico Secada wrote:
> > Normally I would consider an IO error as a hardware error, but I
> > don't think that is the case in this situation.
> 
> Agreed.  This is a userland program error message and not a device
> driver error message.
> 
> > I/O error : Input/output error
> > /usr/share/omf/gnome-netstatus/gnome-netstatus-zh_CN.omf:1: parser
> > error : Document is empty
> > ...
> > Any ideas as to why I get this kind of error?
> 
> That file is part of the gnome-netstatus-applet package.
> What is the size of that file?  Is it zero sized?
> 
>   ls -ld /usr/share/omf/gnome-netstatus/gnome-netstatus-zh_CN.omf
> 
> If not zero sized then does the file look normal?
> 
>   less /usr/share/omf/gnome-netstatus/gnome-netstatus-zh_CN.omf
> 
> The stable version is an xml file with xml tags.  I suspect that your
> disk filled up or something crashed during the installation or
> something and the file was left as a zero sized file.  Or that the
> file contents are somehow corrupted.  If the file does not look like
> xml then that is likely the problem.  You might want to reinstall the
> package.
> 
>   sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-netstatus-applet
> 
> Bob
> 
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