Every time I try to install or remove a package, I get this error. I thought maybe it was the hard disk, but a disk check gave me a clean bill of health.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
reading files list for package 'linux-headers-3.16.0-31': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
I tried the solution of removing the listing for this file from the dpkg status file, but to no avail. I tried purging the package but no use. I’m stuck at this point as nothing I can find on Google helps.
Update:
This is now what the error says:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
After trying: https://askubuntu.com/a/603305/1992
Update2:
Seems the drive has bad sectors, but the reallocated sector count is 0. The drive is relatively old, however, so I expect some issues. I won’t be able to replace it immediately, and until then I would still like to be able to keep the system up to date (especially for security reasons).
I noted that there was an issue with coping some md5 checksums related to the package mentioned in the error, but I don’t know what to do with those, such as if clearing them would allow dpkg to continue.
You’ve experienced (at least) a bad block on your disk. Unfortunately, it hit an XFS data structure, so you’ve lost some filesystem metadata. I hope you have backups.
Check smartctl
Hopefully you have smartctl installed (it needs to run as root, e.g., via sudo). If installed, it should give output like this:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 103 098 006 Pre-fail Always - 212688305
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 094 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 76
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 002 002 036 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 4015
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 084 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 291678490
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 42540
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 39
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 018 018 000 Old_age Always - 82
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 097 000 Old_age Always - 25770393781
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 16
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 061 061 045 Old_age Always - 39 (Min/Max 38/39)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 039 040 000 Old_age Always - 39 (0 16 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 034 013 000 Old_age Always - 212688305
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 099 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 099 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 42617 (160 246 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3791056483
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1003117143
The exact attributes shown vary from disk to disk, but most all of them have a 197 and/or 198 telling you how many un-repaired bad sectors the disk knows about. In the above output, you can see #5 is FAILING_NOW, and it’s type is Pre-fail. That means the disk firmware expects the disk to fail within 24 hours. If you have any failed attributes, especially pre-fail ones, I’d replace the disk (and if its still under warranty, you should be able to RMA it).
If you do not have smartctl
If you don’t have smartctl, now is not the time to install it.
Critical next step
If you have any important files on the machine disk—especially ones that haven’t already been backed up—attempt to copy them to a different disk, USB flash drive, network share, etc. Your filesystem has been damaged, and it’s possible this is your last chance to do so easily.
Use a live system to run smartctl, xfs_repair
If you don’t have smartctl installed, you can reboot (after copying off important data!) into a live system (from CD, USB stick, etc.) and run smartctl from there. You can also use xfs_repair from the live system to attempt filesystem repair. (Please read the manpage for xfs_repair first; I confess to not having much experience with XFS).
Note that disks made in the last decade or two have spare sectors and will use on of them to replace the bad sector the next time it’s written to. smartctl -A will normally have attributes showing how many times this has been done.
After filesystem repair
If there were important files you couldn’t grab before, you can now try again.
Depending on bad the damage was (how many files you lost, and which ones), you’ll need to either re-install a few packages (using dpkg -i or apt-get install --reinstall) or, if it was bad, re-install the OS.
Of course, if you have a recent full-system backup, probably easiest to restore from backup.
How to prevent this in the future
Using two disks (in a mdraid RAID1 mirror) allows the kernel to deal with bad blocks by reading the sector from the other disk. It then writes the correct data back, allowing the disk to use a spare sector. You can also run RAID1 between two partitions on the same disk, which will half your available space but protect against bad sectors (but not against the disk failing entirely).
Some filesystems (e.g., btrfs with «duplicate» mode) can keep two copies of their metadata or your data, also protecting against bad sectors.
Trying to build php from source on Ubuntu 9.10 to enable GD2, but when i run dpkg-buildpackage, it just quits giving me this error:
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt —quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 2
Patch suhosin.patch does not remove cleanly (refresh it or enforce with -f)make: *** [unpatch] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2
I’ve googled around, but i really can’t find what’s causing this, and what i should do about it…
any ideas?
Josh Lee
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asked Nov 30, 2009 at 10:02
Have you used source from debian package? If no, then you can have difficulties to apply patches from Debian. Debian uses primary clean sources (package_name.orig.tar.gz file) and patches (package_name.diff.gz). Don’t know about this particular problem, didn’t build packages for some time, but you could try to build it debian-way (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcepkgs). Ckech out original sources, then apply Debian patches, apply your patches (or the other order, don’t know which way should work), and finally build Debian packages from patched sources
answered Nov 30, 2009 at 10:40
MBOMBO
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I had similar trouble recently. What’s happening is that dpkg is trying to apply patches to the source code, after you’ve already applied a patch. It can’t apply them cleanly because they have gotten moved around by your modifications. I fiddled for a while, and found out that the easiest thing to do is to add the patch to Quilt and then build the package. BUT, the «patch directory» for quilt is DIFFERENT from the normal one, in a Debian package. It’s debian/patches rather than ./patches.
Anyway, look at section 6.4 in this page of the Debian package maintainer’s guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-build.en.html
answered Mar 5, 2010 at 19:00
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When I try to install anything on a linux server I always get the following error:
Last login: Sat Aug 22 10:25:09 2015 from 27.34.97.20
root@s3:~# sudo -i
root@s3:~# su
root@s3:~# apt-get install nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
nginx-common nginx-full
Suggested packages:
fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nginx-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nginx-full
The following packages will be upgraded:
nginx nginx-common
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/479 kB of archives.
After this operation, 216 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
root@s3:~#
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When I try to install anything on a linux server I always get the following error:
Last login: Sat Aug 22 10:25:09 2015 from 27.34.97.20
root@s3:~# sudo -i
root@s3:~# su
root@s3:~# apt-get install nginx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
nginx-common nginx-full
Suggested packages:
fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert
The following packages will be REMOVED:
nginx-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
nginx-full
The following packages will be upgraded:
nginx nginx-common
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/479 kB of archives.
After this operation, 216 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
root@s3:~#
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lalalatry, версия ОС?
вручную из /var/lib/dpkg/info ничего не удаляли?

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lalalatry, что устанавливаете?
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