Bug#34422: potato apt-get update, glibc2.1 problem?

["Sean Cavanaugh \(Western Data\)" <a-seanca@microsoft.com>]

Platform: Intel i686, Debian 'potato'

Package: apt (0.1.10), possibly libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 (2.91.63-1.1)

Kernel is 2.2.3 on one machine, and 2.2.2 on another, both exhibit the
problems described below





I'm not sure where the problem is, but i suspect its from glibc2.1.  When I
execute 'apt-get update', this happens: (my recent apt-get's and versions of
what changed are listed below)



I get the following error, which prevents apt from working

stargate:/home/sean# apt-get update

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Packages

Get http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US Packages

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Packages


Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Packages             

Fetched 2434k in 21s (112k/s)


Updating package file cache...done

Updating package status cache...stargate:/home/sean# apt-get upgrade

Updating package status cache...E: Line 3 in package file
/var/lib/dpkg/status is too long.(2)

E: You should probably re-run apt-get update



I checked the status file, and it looks just fine (line 3 is probably only
20 characters long)





Here are the apt call's i issued before things started getting flaky in apt:



apt-get upgrade : the following packages were installed

The following packages have been kept back

  fakeroot locales g++ libreadlineg2-dev libc6-dev ncurses-bin gcc bash
sysvinit libc6 cpp apt

  libncurses4 libreadlineg2 

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ncurses-term [279k]   (4.2-3.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ldso [185k]           (1.9.10-1.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ncurses-base [14.0k]  (4.2-3.1) 

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main egcs-docs [443k]
(2.91.63-1.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libncurses4-dbg [756k](4.2-3.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libncurses4-dev [512k](4.2-3.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main glibc-doc [2216k]
(2.1.1-0pre1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main sharutils [117k]      (4.2-9)

Everything appeared to update normally, as apt is famous for.



then (note i did not do an apt-get update between these calls)



apt-get install g++ : 

The following extra packages will be installed:

  libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev libc6-dev gcc libc6 cpp 

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  libstdc++2.9-dev timezones egcc checker 

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev 

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6 [1403k] (2.1.1-0pre1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 [109k]
(2.91.63-1.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main g++ [1013k] (2.91.63-1.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main gcc [957k] (2.91.63-1.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6-dev [1997k] (2.1.1-0pre1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev [233k]
(2.91.63-1.1)

Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main cpp [110k] (2.91.63-1.1)

Everything appeared to install/update/remove here as well