20 Jul
2007
20 Jul
'07
12:21 p.m.
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:06 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Probably /var/lib/dpkg/info/xcalc.list
Did your /var get full while installing something? I'd suggest reinstalling xcalc at least.
I think you will get this error when you try to install anything, including trying to reinstall xcalc. Best course of action here would be to replace xcalc.list with a known good copy (which I have just emailed to you off list) or at least compare to your copy and make changes as appropriate.
Then I would do a 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall xcalc' just to be sure.
It's either as MJR says, or a disk/filesystem error or the machine was rebooted whilst it was still installing the ubuntu packages or possibly during an update.
Hope that helps,