Bug#194601: marked as done (apt: available file corrupted on update)
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Subject: apt: available file corrupted on update
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Package: apt
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-24
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable
When using dselect to update the packages list, the "available" file
gets corrupted somehow. Removing the Packages files and available file
to force them to be downloaded and regenerated from scratch does not
help this. apt-get update doesn't generate an "available" file at all.
Symptoms are that the "Architecture: " line in /var/lib/dpkg/available
is getting garbled with random binary junk, and dpkg is aborting with
all kinds of messages about the available file not matching up with the
status file.
dpkg says the status file shows invalid status for various packages, and
other times it says that the Config-Version is invalid.
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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 00:32:59 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#194601: apt: available file corrupted on update
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This appears to have been corruption in /var/cache/apt. Closing.
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