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Re: apt update issue



On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Matt Herzog wrote:

>  Perhaps I should address this mail to the apt or dpkg mailing list
>  but I thought I'd try here forst in case it's a Sparc-specific issue.
>  I already and repeatedly tried the suggested solution to no avail.

Long ago I observed that some of the older not-ultrasparc sparcs had 
a bug that caused writable mmap corruption that gave these symptoms.
I've also seen similar problems on some BSD versions that botched msync.
IIRC.

Jason




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