On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:04:32PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > > In that case, the problem is definately localized to your machine, that
> > > code has not changed in years and years [and nobody has ever had a
> > > problem like this].
> > >
> > > I suggest you investigate it further from your end.
> >
> > Wel, that does sound nice, but as the only symptom I have is apt
> > breakage, and since the breakage occured starting with the new version
> > of apt, perhaps you have a suggestion as to where I should look for
> > problems on my end?
>
> You can try rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin - but that should not change anything
> (unless you have flaky hardware).
>
> I assume this output is from apt-get dist-upgrade? (you didn't give any
> context)
>
> Can you even duplicate it?
I fixed the problem, by removing apt, all of /var/*/apt/, and
/etc/apt, and reinstalling with dpkg.
However, removing /var/cache/apt/* and /var/state/apt/* was not
enought to fix it. So either the config files were breaking this (I
just had apt.conf and sources.list) or the apt installation was bad.
I'm not sure.
But it was repeatable, and was from dist-upgrade.
sam th
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