I'm in Ubuntu 18.04, and now I'm dealing with this "fatal error" in dpkg folder, while trying to install some random apps... Some of them are returning this error:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: reading files list for package 'libistack-commons-java': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)I don't know exactly what this pack "libistack-commons-java" does, but since is something wrong with it, I supposed I could update this pack and get rid of all potencial corrupted archives or something like this.
Then I got the same error, and I don't really know what else I could try!
guialleoni@guialleoni:~$ sudo apt-get update -y
Get:1 bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]
Hit:2 bionic InRelease
Get:3 bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB]
Get:4 bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB]
Fetched 252 kB in 6s (39,2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
guialleoni@guialleoni:~$ sudo apt-get install -y libistack-commons-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libistack-commons-java is already the newest version (3.0.6-3~18.04).
libistack-commons-java set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
guialleoni@guialleoni:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libgconf-2-4
Hit:1 bionic InRelease
Get:2 bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB]
Get:3 bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB]
Get:4 bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]
Fetched 252 kB in 1s (236 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
5 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libgconf-2-4 is already the newest version (3.2.6-4ubuntu1).
The following NEW packages will be installed: libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17,9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 84,0 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package libcanberra-gtk0:amd64.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: reading files list for package 'libistack-commons-java': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)Some big heart to help the dummie here? Please!
101 Answer
Note: do NOT abort a bad block scan!
Note: do NOT bad block a SSD
Note: backup your important files FIRST!
Note: this will take many hours
Note: you may have a pending HDD failure
Boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB.
In terminal...
sudo fdisk -l # identify all "Linux Filesystem" partitions
sudo e2fsck -fcky /dev/sdXX # read-only test
or
sudo e2fsck -fccky /dev/sdXX # non-destructive read/write test (recommended)
The -k is important, because it saves the previous bad block table, and adds any new bad blocks to that table. Without -k, you loose all of the prior bad block information.
The -fccky parameter...
-f Force checking even if the file system seems clean. -c This option causes e2fsck to use badblocks(8) program to do a read-only scan of the device in order to find any bad blocks. If any bad blocks are found, they are added to the bad block inode to prevent them from being allocated to a file or direc‐ tory. If this option is specified twice, then the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test. -k When combined with the -c option, any existing bad blocks in the bad blocks list are preserved, and any new bad blocks found by running badblocks(8) will be added to the existing bad blocks list. -y Assume an answer of `yes' to all questions; allows e2fsck to be used non-interactively. This option may not be specified at the same time as the -n or -p options.
