Re: Synaptic Package Manager read failure
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:00 -0700, J Merritt wrote:
> I was attempting to work with the repository list in
> Synaptic. After disabling the two Sarge DVD entries
> (contrib main), re-enabling them, and reloading the
> deb list, I keep getting an error message that won't
> go away. If I recheck the two entries "on," it still
> produces the same message, which is:
>
> W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian
> GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2
> (20050607)] unstable/contrib Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-2%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian
> GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2
> (20050607)] unstable/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-2%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian
> GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1
> (20050607)] unstable/contrib Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian
> GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1
> (20050607)] unstable/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
>
> Suggestions? Thanks very much in advance.
Not certain I understand your problem exactly - but run apt-get clean
as root. It can't hurt. gary
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