Re: Apt Crippled
On Sunday 27 February 2011 21:58:47 David Baron wrote:
> 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.
> > > >
> > > > 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_Tra
> > > > ns 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.
OK, so did the needed sources.list line for "experimental" change that it now
does not have the file?
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