Re: aptitude update crashes
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:38:01 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when I try to get an update, I get the following error message:
>
> Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [62.0kB]
> Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff
> [124kB]
> E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!
> E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault.
>
> Seems, the cache-limit is set too low, or the packagefile is too big.
>
> My cachelimit is set to
>
> APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";
>
> which should be enough, shouldn't it? I tried to increase it, but it had no
> effect. Maybe there is something wrong in the repository?
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
>
Yes, there's a pdiff file corrupt. A simple workaround is to tell apt/aptitude
to get the full files, not the pdiffs, for this one time:
aptitude update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
Kind regards
Jan
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