Christopher M. Jones on 28 Jan 2006 18:24:32 -0000 |
Yup. Drive is failing. Diagnostic utilities confirm it. Thanks for your suggestions. On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 08:44 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > Christopher M. Jones wrote: > > >I've been having a problem with imake on my ubuntu dapper system. For > >the past month or so imake remains unconfigured. The message is: > > > >Setting up imake (1.0.1-0ubuntu1) ... > >dpkg: error processing imake (--configure): > > failed in buffer_read(fd): md5hash: Input/output error > > > >I've googled it, and I get nothing. Moreover, after a round of this > >hdparm reports all drive settings unset (dma is off, multi is off, etc.) > >Anybody got a clue what's going on here? > > > > > > > Have you tried asking in ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com? (Its a very high > volume list with a lot of noise, but you can access it with a newsreader > via gmane and just search the headers for relevant stuff. If you use > Kubuntu, the corollary Kubuntu list is more sane in both volume and > minimal noise.) > > My perusal of the Kubuntu list tells me that there are still too many > problems with dapper to use it on a machine that you depend upon. My > (k)ubuntu experience (about 18 months) is that it is safest to upgrade > no sooner than 6 weeks after the official release. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plugYY ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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