Re: apt error message
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:33:16AM -0700, Vikram wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I deleted the cache directory [only the archives iirc] to save space.
> However apt failed to work after that. Thats understandable as it "needs"
> a system directory....but what was really counter-intuitive was the error
> message was something like "E: could not dequeue object" . How does that
> help in conveying the actual problem in any fathomable way ?
>
> [Also is it not possible to do a mkdir -p to just create the empty
> directory?]
>
> Thanks. Regards,
> Vikram
>
Maybe you didn't create all that is required?
$ ls -lR /var/cache/apt
/var/cache/apt/:
total 8768
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Oct 22 04:12 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4533486 Oct 22 04:11 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4430217 Oct 22 03:49 srcpkgcache.bin
/var/cache/apt/archives:
total 4
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 22 04:12 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 22 03:52 partial
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial:
total 0
$
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