Re: Probable bug or braindead person in front of a computer
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Alexander Koch wrote:
> Hello.
>
> |tired ~ # apt-get update
> |[stable and unstable]
> |Updating package file cache...
> |E: Line 3 in package file /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages is too long.(2)
>
> Can you give me a hint what may be wrong with that one?
> I fail to find the reason for this...
>
> This is a shiny new slink, taken from the current bootdisks
> and apt 0.1.9.
>
> Attached you will find an extract of an strace.
> I know nearly nothing about any formats or something
> or even C programming, but.. isn't the seek value a
> bit too high?
Somehow you are using glibc2.1 which has a bug in it's handling of legacy
iostreams code.
Jason
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