Re: Installing packages hangs
--- Wolfgang_Jährling <wolfgang@pro-linux.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I thought the following is a problem which several people encountered
> before, and that there was a workaround for it, but I could not find
> anything about it with Google or in my local archive of the mailing
> lists.
>
> In a fresh J1 installation, doing "apt-get install screen" (or the same
> with any other package) hangs until I abort it with ^C. The last thing
> it prints is "18% [Working]", sometimes with 25%, sometimes with 0%, and
> sometimes even right before it would print this line.
>
> Starting it in rpctrace made it abort with
>
> E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers that help in solving this problem.
>
> Cheers,
> GNU/Wolfgang
>
Well, it seems the /var is not writable. So you probably show us what
fsysopts /var/cache/apt shows.
=====
James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
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