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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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    Shaul Karl, shaulka@bezeqint.n e t



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