Bug#45695: marked as done (apt: apt-get update fails with apt-cdrom)
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From: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>
Subject: apt: apt-get update fails with apt-cdrom
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: normal
I run into serious trouble with apt 0.3.13 when trying to use the
Linux-Central Slink 2.1r1 CDs.
Here's what I did:
- remove /etc/apt/apt.conf
- remove /etc/apt/sources.list and create a new empty one
- remove /var/state/apt/cdroms.list
- remove /var/state/apt/lists/*
So I have a clean environment.
Now I do a "apt-cdrom add" to add the binary CD 2 of the above
mentioned disk set. This seems to work correct:
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# apt-cdrom add
Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/
Unmounting CD-ROM
Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM
Identifying.. [437011adaf8f9b2306881fab43cdc877-2]
Scanning Disc for index files.. Found 2 package indexes and 1 source indexes.
Found label 'Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1) 2/4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306'
This Disc is called 'Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306'
Reading Package Indexes... Done
Wrote 1199 records.
Reading Source Indexes... Done
Wrote 77 records.
Writing new source list
Source List entries for this Disc are:
deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/" debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/
deb-src "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/source/
Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set.
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This creates a /var/state/apt/cdroms.list with the following contents:
------------------ cdroms.list --------------------------------
CD::437011adaf8f9b2306881fab43cdc877-2 "Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306";
CD::437011adaf8f9b2306881fab43cdc877-2::Label "Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1) 2/4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306";
------------------ cdroms.list --------------------------------
And the following /etc/apt/sources.list:
------------------ sources.list -------------------------------
deb-src "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/source/
deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/
deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/" debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/
------------------ sources.list -------------------------------
This looks quite good, but when I run "apt-get update" now, the cache
files aren't accessible:
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# apt-get update
Failed to fetch cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/source/Sources
Method gave a blank filename
Failed to fetch cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/source/Release
Method gave a blank filename
Failed to fetch cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
Method gave a blank filename
Failed to fetch cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/Release
Method gave a blank filename
Failed to fetch cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Packages
Method gave a blank filename
Failed to fetch cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990306/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/Release
Method gave a blank filename
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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In /var/state/apt/lists/ there are the following files:
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# ls -lG /var/state/apt/lists/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 80885 Sep 21 21:57 Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 96 Sep 21 21:57 Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Sep 21 21:57 Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_source_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 31882 Sep 21 21:57 Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_debian_dists_frozen_contrib_source_Sources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 817260 Sep 21 21:57 Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 93 Sep 21 21:57 Debian%20GNU%5fLinux%20slink%20(2.1)%202%5f4%20main%20binary-i386%20section%202,%20contrib%20SAM19990306_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Release
-rw-r----- 1 root 0 Sep 21 21:57 lock
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"strace -e stat apt-get update" tells me that apt-get tries to access
the above files using stat() (with correct names, no longer problems
with double "_" or something like this), but what does this "Method
gave a blank filename" mean?
Then I tried the same as above (with an empty cdroms.list and
sources.list) with a potato CD which I burned myself. This CD has a
directory /debian/binary-i386 with all the packages in it and a
Packages file which was created with
dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages
in the /debian/binary-i386 directory.
This gives me another strange message:
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# apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/Packages.gz could not be found.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/Release could not be found.
---------------------- cut ------------------------------------
The Linux-Central CD worked with apt 0.3.11 without any problems while
the self burned potato CD caused some problems (see #43830), which I
was able to work around with 0.3.11. I didn't fully test 0.3.12, but
I fear that it also was broken for apt-cdrom like 0.3.13 is.
I hope that the above wasn't too much information but enough to find
the center of the problem, which makes apt-cdrom completely unusable
here.
Ciao
Roland
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux spinnaker 2.2.12 #2 Don Aug 26 15:00:39 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
hi libc6 2.1.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
hi libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre1 The GNU stdc++ library
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These bugs are fixed in the latest APT upload to unstable, 0.3.14:
apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
* Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
* Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
* Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
* Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
* Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
* Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
* Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
Closes: #46639, #47498
* mipsel arch Closes: #47614
* Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
* Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
* Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
event of a failure Closes: #47112
* Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
* Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
* Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
* no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
* apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
* De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
* Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
* Dependency reports now show OR group relations
* Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
* Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
* Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
* Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
* --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
* Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
* Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
* Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
* Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
* Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
* Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884
-- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800
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