Yesterday I started upgrading my Edgy installation to Fiesty. There was a problem that stopped the upgrade (I didn't catch the error message) that stopped the installation of the packages after they had downloaded. I killed the dpkg process, leaving a lock. Someone recommended that I run dpkg --configure -a, which worked perfectly. The packages were installing again.
Then came the real problem. When installing the cvs package the computer gradually slows to a halt with about 0% CPU utilization. The mouse is the only thing that will work in X. If I'm in the virtual terminal during the install I see the same error repeatedly popping up straight to the terminal. My only guess is that there is a filesystem problem, which explains both the message and why any program that might do a file read/write crashes.
Cheers,
Pingveno
ThinkPad T43
ReiserFS 3 root partition
Kernel 2.6.17.11-generic
Update with more info:
The message that was sent to the console is:
where the # signs are random numbers.
The installation crashes after apt-get (or whatever program it's calling) outputs:
Then came the real problem. When installing the cvs package the computer gradually slows to a halt with about 0% CPU utilization. The mouse is the only thing that will work in X. If I'm in the virtual terminal during the install I see the same error repeatedly popping up straight to the terminal. My only guess is that there is a filesystem problem, which explains both the message and why any program that might do a file read/write crashes.
Cheers,
Pingveno
ThinkPad T43
ReiserFS 3 root partition
Kernel 2.6.17.11-generic
Update with more info:
The message that was sent to the console is:
Code:
[########.######] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/11/04
The installation crashes after apt-get (or whatever program it's calling) outputs:
Code:
unpacking replacement cvs
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