Re: fixing broken apt

[Oliver Savage <oliver.savage@gmail.com>]

Yes I felt relieved that it was that simple of a matter. The
mirror_list file was a very large html file. Being new I don't know
what it should be. But that did clear things up. One thing I learned
is to be careful around apt especially when passing "-o", and that if
you are using xdmcp you may want to switch to a ssh or telnet session
while running "apt-get update". I wasn't keeping exact enough track to
understand what created this problem in the first place.

On Apr 2, 2005 5:42 PM, Bruno Hertz <brrhtz@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Oliver Savage <oliver.savage@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Thank you both for your help. I got back on the machine today and this
> > is what I did:
> >
> > # lsof -c apt
> > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> > apt-get 5604 root cwd DIR 3,12 1280 3 /home/nonado
> > apt-get 5604 root rtd DIR 3,5 608 2 /
> > apt-get 5604 root txt REG 3,6 152664 3080 /usr/bin/apt-get
> > apt-get 5604 root mem REG 3,5 90210 833 /lib/ld-2.2.5.so
> > apt-get 5604 root mem REG 3,6 880300 3098
> > /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2.0
> > apt-get 5604 root mem REG 3,6 288540 2155
> > /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
> > apt-get 5604 root mem REG 3,5 130088 843 /lib/libm-2.2.5.so
> > apt-get 5604 root mem REG 3,5 1153784 839 /lib/libc-2.2.5.so
> > apt-get 5604 root 0u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
> > apt-get 5604 root 1u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
> > apt-get 5604 root 2u CHR 136,1 3 /dev/pts/1
> > apt-get 5604 root 3w CHR 1,3 1087 /dev/null
> > apt-get 5604 root 4r REG 3,5 187275 9949 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/mirrors_full
> >
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d# ls
> > 70debconf mirrors_full sources.list
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d# vi mirrors_full
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d# mv mirrors_full mirrors_full.old
> > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d# apt-get -v update
> > apt 0.5.4 for linux i386 compiled on Aug 19 2001 01:02:26
> > Supported Modules:
> > *Ver: Standard .deb
> > *Pkg: Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
> > S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree
> > S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree
> > Idx: Debian Source Index
> > Idx: Debian Package Index
> > Idx: Debian dpkg status file
> >
> > It looks like apt is ok again. Guess I'll be reading up on "lsof" in
> > my spare time this next week.
> 
> Sorry, am I to understand that it's fixed and that it was your mirror list?
> If so, happy you, I've rarely seen such an issue fixed so easily :)
> 
> And, of course, if that was it one could consider it being a bug, since even
> if the list was faulty/too huge/whatever, apparently apt-get didn't handle
> that in any proper way ...
> 
> Either way, great it works.
> 
> Regards, Bruno.
> 
> 
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