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error processing gdm

Asked by fred-allen

I recently ran the system updates and it returned an error while processing gdm... now I can only log in through the recovery mode and I do not know what to do to correct the problem. Here is my terminal output:

Setting up gdm (2.20.7-0ubuntu1.1) ...
dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure):
 failed in buffer_read(fd): md5hash: Input/output error
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gdm

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fred-allen (faself) said : 		#1

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Felipe Xavier (lipe-loko94) said : 		#2

Try this on the terminal:
dpkg --configure -a

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fred-allen (faself) said : 		#3

I tried it, but it brings back the exact same error...

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Felipe Xavier (lipe-loko94) said : 		#4

What Ubuntu version do you use?
Did you upgrade it from an older version or you made a clean install?

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fred-allen (faself) said : 		#5

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. I made a clean install and the error happened when downloading and installing updates. I have used the recovery console to try and repair broken packages but get the same error back.

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Best Felipe Xavier (lipe-loko94) said : 		#6

Try this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

If that doesn't work then it should be a bug or you can try to remove gdm and then install it again.

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fred-allen (faself) said : 		#7

Thanks Felipe Xavier, that solved my question.