Re: Apt Crippled

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote:
> On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest-
> 
> request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > > For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the
> > > following
> > > 
> > > error and can no longer run anything in apt, update or upgrading:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Reading package lists... Error!
> > > E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> > > E: Problem with MergeList
> > > /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.co.il_debian_dists_testing_contrib_i18n_Trans
> > > la tion- en
> > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > What to do about it
> > 
> > Moving the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ out of the way and rerunning
> > apt-get update is worth a try.
> 
> Did that. It stumbles at the same point:
> 
> 
> Get:147 http://debian.co.il stable/non-free Translation-en
> 99% [143 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to debian.co.il] [Waiting
> for headers]                            943 kB/s 0sbzip2: (stdin) is not a
> bzip2 file.
> 99% [144 Translation-en_US bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to debian.co.il] [Waiting
> for headers]                         943 kB/s 0sbzip2: (stdin) is not a
> bzip2 file.
> 99% [145 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to debian.co.il] [Waiting
> for headers]                            943 kB/s 0sbzip2: (stdin) is not a
> bzip2 file.
> * * * *

MORE: after not liking the bzip2 versions, gronks at the lzma
99% [134 Translation-en_US lzma 0 B] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for 
headers]                                 943 kB/s 0s/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder 
error
99% [135 Translation-en lzma 0 B] [Connecting to debian.co.il] [Waiting for 
headers]                             943 kB/s 0s/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
99% [136 Translation-en_US lzma 0 B] [Connecting to debian.co.il] [Waiting for 
headers]                          943 kB/s 0s/usr/bin/lzma: Decoder error
* * * *
> 
> The error shown in synaptic also indicates this point of error:
> 
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.co.il_debian_dists_testing_contrib_i18n_Translati
> on- en
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.