[SWLUG] Ubuntu box 'dies' when upgrade is run

[Peter Prior]

Lo Dear :P

If you can't ls files as root thats .. erm.. bad..

try chmod 644ing the all the files in the dir (including the ones you 
get permission denied on..)

Red normally means an invalid symlink (ie: one that points to a file 
that no longer exists, but these seem to look like actual files :| )

You could try removing them (with -f perhaps) manually.  It could be 
that your disk needs fsck'ing in which case do a:

mount -o remount,ro /

fsck.<whatever fs you're using> /dev/<whatever> and see what happens.. 
or do the same thing after booting single user with the "single" kernel 
param

gl :P

Pete

Daniel Barbato wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having an issue with my Ubuntu box, when ever I run
> 
> # sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> my box will either seemingly hang, or the screen will go black and the 
> box reboot.
> 
> I've managed to whittle it down to a couple of files that are being 
> deleted by apt-get. Lo and behold, if I try and delete the same files 
> the box dies. The strange thing is that they are text files, so I don't 
> know why on earth the box would flip out like this (I could understand 
> if i was doing it to loaded modules).
> 
> The files are ...
> 
> root at bunbun:/usr/share/doc/dbus-glib-1 # ls -l
> ls: changelog.Debian.gz.dpkg-tmp: Permission denied
> ls: README.dpkg-tmp: Permission denied
> total 168
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  3876 Mar 11 17:55 NEWS.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  3876 Sep  3 17:45 NEWS.gz.dpkg-new
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  5749 Aug 11 22:09 changelog.Debian.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 75345 Mar 11 18:11 changelog.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 75345 Mar 11 18:11 changelog.gz.dpkg-tmp
> 
> NEWS.gz, changelog.Debian.gz and changelog.gz are all red in the 
> directory listing, I don't know if that has any significance.
> 
> Please could someone help and point me in the right direction?
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
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