Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Flo wrote:
>>
>> Also take a look into directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. There may
>> be left
>> some files. I had to remove them by hand.
> 
> I found there more than 400 files, mainly diff files, but some others as
> well.
> 
> Is it better to remove them???
> 
> Flo.
> 

This directory belongs to package "apt". The man-page of apt-get states

    /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/
        Storage area for state information in transit. Configuration Item:
        Dir::State::Lists (implicit partial).

So I think you can remove all files in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ without risk.
With the next command
  apt-get update
or
  aptitude update
there may again appear files in this directory. I would expect to see there
files only in the case the "update" command is interrupted. But may be something
is wrong with apt-get. Time to file a bug report?
-- 
Regards,
Jörg-Volker.