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

[Daniel Barbato]

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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