Re: Bug#120311: apt-cache segfaults on malformed status-file
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Once you know what your particular error is then you can try to fix that.
> > Since you say it runs OK as a normal user it sounds like something bad has
> > happened to your cache files in /var/cache/apt/*.bin and erasing them will
> > surely make it run again.
>
> Nothing bad had happened to them:
> E: Unable to write mmap - msync (28 No space left on device)
> What business does apt-cache have trying to rebuild the cache if I run it
> as root? All I did was ask it to read something.
It is out of date and it needs to freshen it up. I think you can use the
--no-generate option to tell it you really just want to query the stale
data, but the results for some queries might not be so good.
Jason
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