E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!

[Olivier Mueller <om-lists-debian@omx.ch>]

Hello,

Since a few days, each time I run an "apt-get update", it crashes with
the message "E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!".  Maybe a DB is
corrupted (/ went 100% recently)?   Any idea why I should try?  Even
google/googlenews reports "Your search did not match any documents."... 


u1:~# apt-get update
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Release.gpg
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US Release
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
[...]
Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/non-free Sources/DiffIndex
Hit ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch unstable/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Get:6 2006-05-10-1321.16.pdiff [14.2kB]
Get:7 2006-05-10-1321.16.pdiff [252B]
Get:8 2006-05-10-1321.16.pdiff [14.2kB]
E: Method rred has died unexpectedly!

u1:~# uname -a
Linux u1 2.4.24-sparc64 #1 Fri Jan 30 18:32:22 EST 2004 sparc64
GNU/Linux       (ultra1)

Thanks for any hint :)
Olivier