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I'm in Ubuntu 18.04, and now I'm dealing with this "fatal error" in dpkg folder, while trying to install some random apps... Some of them are returning this error:

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 reading files list for package 'libistack-commons-java': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

I don't know exactly what this pack "libistack-commons-java" does, but since is something wrong with it, I supposed I could update this pack and get rid of all potencial corrupted archives or something like this.

Then I got the same error, and I don't really know what else I could try!

guialleoni@guialleoni:~$ sudo apt-get update -y
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]
Hit:2 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                
Get:3 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB]
Get:4 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB] 
Fetched 252 kB in 6s (39,2 kB/s)                                               
Reading package lists... Done
guialleoni@guialleoni:~$ sudo apt-get install -y libistack-commons-java
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libistack-commons-java is already the newest version (3.0.6-3~18.04).
libistack-commons-java set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
guialleoni@guialleoni:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libgconf-2-4
Hit:1 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:2 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB]   
Get:3 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB] 
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]    
Fetched 252 kB in 1s (236 kB/s)     
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
5 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libgconf-2-4 is already the newest version (3.2.6-4ubuntu1).
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/17,9 kB of archives.
After this operation, 84,0 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package libcanberra-gtk0:amd64.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 reading files list for package 'libistack-commons-java': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Some big heart to help the dummie here? Please!

Guilherme Alleoni
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    Note: do NOT abort a bad block scan!

    Note: do NOT bad block a SSD

    Note: backup your important files FIRST!

    Note: this will take many hours

    Note: you may have a pending HDD failure

Boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB.

In terminal...

sudo fdisk -l # identify all "Linux Filesystem" partitions

sudo e2fsck -fcky /dev/sdXX # read-only test

or

sudo e2fsck -fccky /dev/sdXX # non-destructive read/write test (recommended)

The -k is important, because it saves the previous bad block table, and adds any new bad blocks to that table. Without -k, you loose all of the prior bad block information.

The -fccky parameter...

   -f    Force checking even if the file system seems clean.

   -c    This option causes e2fsck to use badblocks(8) program  to  do  a
         read-only  scan  of  the device in order to find any bad blocks.
         If any bad blocks are found, they are added  to  the  bad  block
         inode  to  prevent them from being allocated to a file or direc‐
         tory.  If this option is specified twice,  then  the  bad  block
         scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test.

   -k    When combined with the -c option, any existing bad blocks in the
         bad blocks list are preserved, and any new bad blocks  found  by
         running  badblocks(8)  will  be added to the existing bad blocks
         list.

   -y    Assume  an answer of `yes' to all questions; allows e2fsck to be
         used non-interactively.  This option may not be specified at the
         same time as the -n or -p options.
heynnema
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