Bug#418456: circular error message: "W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems"
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: minor
A minor facet (a "buglet"?) of an older merged set of bugs:
#345891 needs update for new archive key
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345891
Merged with #345823, #345956, #346002, #347540
...which I don't believe anyone mentioned yet:
# get the tailing 3 lines of standard output and error, numbered.
apt-get update 2>&1 | tail -n 3 | nl
1 W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
2 W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
3 E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Line #2 puts the user in a loop. The invocation was 'apt-get update',
but the error message says "You may want to run" it, (again?).
It would be better if the code that generates that error checked the
command line invocation first, so that users won't be advised to walk in
circles.
Hope this helps...
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.02.19 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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