Comment 0 for bug 312491

when volume becomes full, no programs can be removed because updates and previous attempted installs try to reassert themselves, then the package handler closes itself.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/IO.pm'
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: perl-base 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2
SourcePackage: perl
Title: package perl-base 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/perl/5.10.0/IO.pm'
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686