Error on install/update

[Rhoxus]

Hey guys,

Since last night I am getting an error everytime I try to install or update a package, I'm not sure whats causing it so i'll just post the log here and hope for someone to recognise the problem.

Trying to update Dropbox:

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jaimie@jaimie-Laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  nautilus-dropbox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/90.5kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Trying to install USB supported VirtualBox:

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jaimie@jaimie-Laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dkms libsdl-ttf2.0-0 virtualbox-3.2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dkms libsdl-ttf2.0-0 virtualbox-3.2 virtualbox-nonfree
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 49.8MB of archives.
After this operation, 98.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint-fr.net/ julia/import virtualbox-3.2 amd64 3.2.8-64453~Ubuntu~lucid [49.7MB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main dkms all 2.1.1.2-3ubuntu1.1 [71.3kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe libsdl-ttf2.0-0 amd64 2.0.9-1build1 [16.6kB]
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint-fr.net/ julia/main virtualbox-nonfree all 3.2 [1,370B]
Fetched 49.8MB in 31s (1,564kB/s)                                              
Preconfiguring packages ...
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.8-64453~Ubuntu~lucid_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
(Reading database ... 238868 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.1.1.2-3ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip read error: '<fd:0>: invalid distance too far back'
dpkg-deb: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dkms_2.1.1.2-3ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/sbin/dkms'
Unpacking libsdl-ttf2.0-0 (from .../libsdl-ttf2.0-0_2.0.9-1build1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsdl-ttf2.0-0_2.0.9-1build1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-nonfree.
Unpacking virtualbox-nonfree (from .../virtualbox-nonfree_3.2_all.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.8-64453~Ubuntu~lucid_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dkms_2.1.1.2-3ubuntu1.1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libsdl-ttf2.0-0_2.0.9-1build1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So far I've tried apt-get autoclean, apt-get -f install, apt-get clean all, and a bunch of other commands, but no avail.

I've tried to compile and install the latest Mono from source to get ASP.NET MVC 2 supported with Apache2, thats when the problems started appearing, but I'm not sure if that's causing it.

[mads]

Hi. You need Apache2. If it is already installed, try to start it automatically at boot by changing the "NO_START" entry in "/etc/default/apache2" to 0, i.e. NO_START=0 (# 0 = start on boot; 1 = don't start on boot). Restart.

[Rhoxus]

I believe you didn't get the question, I tried your fix but Apache2 was already running, Ive installed it before compiling mono by Tasksel LAMP server.

Thanks though.