Hi guys,

I have searched this forum but couldnt find this error so i a posting this under a new topic.
I have also searched google a lot but couldnt find anything.

I got an error while installing alsa-utils so then i ran apt-get -f intsall. Following is the output :-

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
alsa-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
alsa-utils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 497 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/137kB of archives.
After unpacking 414kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.6-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to open files list file for package `linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27': Permission denied
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.6-3_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I then tried to run dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.6-3_i386.deb
but i still got the same error :-
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.6-3_i386.deb (--install):
unable to open files list file for package `linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27': Permission denied
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.6-3_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.

When i try to list the files i get :-
root@localhost:/root# ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27.*
ls: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27.list: Permission denied
ls: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27.postinst: Permission denied
ls: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-wlan-ng-modules-2.4.27.postrm: Permission denied

I have spent a lot of time on this. Can anyone help me. Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Thanx