Re: Apt Crippled
On Sunday 20 February 2011 21:42:29 David Baron wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote:
> > 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_T
> > > > > ra ns 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.
> > > * * * *
> > >
> > > 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_Trans
> > > la ti on- en
> > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> > > E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> >
> > All of these files contain a <b> ... no such file </b> error message, 80
> > chars.
> >
> > Error persists. No upgrades. No reportbug-ng. Nada. Has something been
> > fixed that can be manually installed (since apt wont work any more--will
> > dpkg)?
>
> How to get this mess to work?
> Remove from var/lib/apt/lists all *Translations*
> *nemerle*
> *experimental*
>
> I took all mirrors off sources.list except debian's own.
OK, so with this messy procedure, I CAN upgrade. Nermerle is certainly
expendable. What no translations means, I have not noticed. Of course, NO
access to any experimental packages (in case I am too impatient of QT4.7 and
such :-(
Has anyone one else had these errors? Seems this has been going on long enough
for mirror problems to have be corrected.
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