On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:05:11AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 08:59:40AM +0000, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
Hi all,
On 24th March (last Sunday) I received the following (for the first time):
Subject: Cron test -x /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl && /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl
Error: cannot open ../headers/debian_dists_wheezy_Release for locking: No such file or directory
Failed to open filehandles for debian_dists_wheezy_Release. Resolve this manually.
Exiting to prevent deletion of cache contents.
The above all came from systems originally running wheezy which were upgraded to stretch about 2 years ago.
Questions:
1. How to get rid of these errors? I would prefer to avoid spending half a day deciphering a chain of Perl scripts which I'm not familiar with.
2. What specifically happened last week to trigger this behavior? Was it e.g. a permanent removal of all wheezy repos and references?
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00006.html
You will need to change your sources.list.
http://archive.debian.org/debian/README
Perhaps I spoke too soon. I encountered this error in my apt-cacher-ng
log after replying to your message.
Checking/Updating debrep/dists/wheezy/Release...
Attempting to download the alternative version... Checking/Updating
debrep/dists/wheezy/InRelease...
<span class="ERROR">404 Not Found</span>
After seeing that I re-read your message and noticed that the system had
been initially installed as wheezy but now runs stretch.
It has been some years since I moved to apt-cacher-ng, so I've forgotten
how it differs from apt-cacher, but in my case I had to remove the
directories /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/debrep/dists/wheezy* and then
re-run the expiration task.
You may need to do something similar.
Regards,
-Roberto