sausage:/home/aarons#apt-get update Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Packages Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release Hit http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Sources Ign http://www.openafs.org debian-2.2/ Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.What file is the package list so I can examine it and its directory to see if it is indeed writeable. The file system might be corrupted or something, but I'm hesitant to reboot the machine since its 600 miles away, and it might not come back up.
-Aaron dman wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:28:35AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:| I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be | going fine until it died with the following: | | Reading Package Lists... Error!| E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error) | E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. apt-get update That will update the package lists, assuming of course that you have enough disk space for them.| Everything I try to do results in this error. When this happened, I | noticed that /var was at 99% usage, so I deleted the .deb's in | /var/cache/apt/archive to free up some room (there were lots of old | .deb's there in addition to the fresh ones it just got). I figured that | if the .deb's it wanted wern't there, it would just reget them.You can remove the .debs if you don't need them anymore. Sometimes it is really good to have them -- suppose you upgrade and that new package is broken, you can downgrade to the previous version if you still have the package. At any rate, 'apt-get autoclean' will remove some of the old ones for you. HTH, -D