Re: Aptitude message.
On Fri 22 Jan 2016 at 20:55:05 +1000, Weaver wrote:
> Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update
> Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
> [ ERR] Reading package lists
> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.au.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages
> (1)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: The package cache file is corrupted
> E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I'm able to run the update process without incident, and it finishes
> cleanly.
> Is anybody else getting this?
> /etc/apt/sources.list is fine, with contrib included as per usual, so I can
> only assume it's unavailable at the server end.
>
> Other than that, there was a power failure during the night that might have
> done some damage, and I might have to begin a data rescue scenario.
Comment out everything in sources.list. Update. /var/lib/apt/lists/ should
now have only /partial and lock.
Uncomment a ftp.au.debian.org line, perhaps without contrib, Update.
Continue adding to sources.list and updating
How does that go?
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