package kdelibs5-data 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

while updating from Ubuntu-10.4 to 10.4 LT, if we left it happening without actual present to respond,
After few hours, system couldn't boot saying unable to get /dev/SomeFile.

On doing 'sudo apt-get -f install' I could able to re-install the update.
Otherwise GUI had crashed. So that was deep trouble.
Please see if this issue could be solved such that if repose to the update manager hasn't given in time,
it should keep waiting instead of going into some incorrect/corrupted state. Thanks.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 28 20:28:53 2010
Dependencies: hicolor-icon-theme 0.11-1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kdelibs5-data 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.67-generic
SourcePackage: kde4libs
Title: package kdelibs5-data 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686