Bug#61327: marked as done (unhelpful error messages)
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From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
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Subject: unhelpful error messages
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.10slink11
Trying to use the `apt' method in apt, I got the following messages:
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/main Packages
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/main Release
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/contrib Packages
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/contrib Release
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/non-free Packages
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/non-free Release
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/non-US Packages
Undetermined Error
Err http://www.mirror.ac.uk slink/non-US Release
Undetermined Error
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Malformed Priority line
E: Error occured while processing svgalib (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
update available list script returned error exit status 100.
Press RETURN to continue.
As it turns out the error was an incorrectly set http_proxy variable.
But the error messages don't information to determine this. They
should indicate what the problem was clearly.
ttfn/rjk
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Subject: Fixed in 0.3.19
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These bugs have been fixed in APT 0.3.19
apt (0.3.19) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Updates to apt-cdrom to support integrated non-us nicely, thanks to
Paul Wade.
* Fixed that apt-get/cdrom deadlock thing. Closes: #59853, #62945, #61976
* Fixed hardcoded path. Closes: #59743
* Fixed Jay's relative path bug
* Allowed source only CDs. Closes: #58952
* Space check is supressed if --print-uris is given. Closes: #58965
* Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
* Typo in the package description. Closes: #60230
* Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
* Typo in Algorithms.cc. Closes: #63577
* Evil dotty function in apt-cache for generating dependency graphs
with the as-yet-unpackaged GraphVis.
* Appears to have been fixed in Janurary.. Closes: #57981
* New config.guess/sub for the new archs. Closes: #60874
* Fixed error reporting for certain kinds of resolution failures.
Closes: #61327
* Made autoclean respect 'q' settings. Closes: #63023
* Fixed up the example sources.list. Closes: #63676
* Added DPkg::FlushSTDIN to control the flushing of stdin before
forking dpkg. Closes: #63991
-- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 12 May 2000 21:10:54 -0700
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