Etch - Broken update failed in buffer_write

[dcannell]

With Synaptic, while trying to update linux-image-2.6.18-6-686, I
receive the error below

E:/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.
1-22etch2_i386.deb: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)

The package shows as broken in Synaptic.

/var shows 1.81 GiB (1.25 GiB Free) so the partition being full
shouldn't be the problem.

I'm a relative newbie to Linux although no stranger to a command line
interface so I'm not afraid of it, just don't know what to do next.

Another issue I have is on login, a minor issue but a PITA...

I seldom an able to login on the first attempt, mostly not even on the
second. It looks like the video fills in the wallpaper but not the
toolbars on the bottom then there is evidence of video corruption on
the screen (on this computer the wallpaper is the flower with the
green background). The background color in the center of the screen
looks like it gets corrupted and the login stops and goes back to
requesting a username. On a different computer, with a different
walpaper, I have exactly the same result.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks, Dave Cannell
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[Bill Marcum]

On 2008-09-07, dcannell <dcan...@freeshell.org> wrote:
> With Synaptic, while trying to update linux-image-2.6.18-6-686, I
> receive the error below
>
> E:/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.
> 1-22etch2_i386.deb: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
>
> The package shows as broken in Synaptic.
>
> /var shows 1.81 GiB (1.25 GiB Free) so the partition being full
> shouldn't be the problem.
>

Could be a bad download or a physical problem with the hard drive or the
RAM.

> I'm a relative newbie to Linux although no stranger to a command line
> interface so I'm not afraid of it, just don't know what to do next.
>
> Another issue I have is on login, a minor issue but a PITA...
>
> I seldom an able to login on the first attempt, mostly not even on the
> second. It looks like the video fills in the wallpaper but not the
> toolbars on the bottom then there is evidence of video corruption on
> the screen (on this computer the wallpaper is the flower with the
> green background). The background color in the center of the screen
> looks like it gets corrupted and the login stops and goes back to
> requesting a username. On a different computer, with a different
> walpaper, I have exactly the same result.
>

Have you tried memtest86? I use Ubuntu, I don't know if Debian puts
memtest in the boot menu by default.

[dcannell]

On Sep 7, 1:08 am, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 2008-09-07, dcannell <dcann...@freeshell.org> wrote:> With Synaptic, while trying to update linux-image-2.6.18-6-686, I

Two computers, same results, no other issues with either. Probably
not memory.