Package: apt Version: 0.7.14+b1 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi! I'm using the German locale de_DE@euro. Since about yesterday, apt / aptitude fail for me with the following messages: E: Toll, Sie haben die Anzahl an Beschreibungen überschritten, die APT handhaben kann. E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary- i386_Packages E: Die Paketliste oder die Statusdatei konnte nicht geparst oder geöffnet werden. I'm not the only one who recently seems to be affected by this problem: http://tinyurl.com/56vwcx However, the suggested workaround - deleting the *Translation* files in /var/lib/apt/ - didn't work for me. Removing some Debian suits from sources.list - eg. only keeping unstable and deleting stable and testing - seems to help. Changing the locale to "C" also seems to help. (!) Are there any "real" solutions to this problem, which renders apt-get / aptitude unusuable without manual intervention. (I found the locale-dependency of this problem by pure trial-and-error...) Greetings, Gunter -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; APT::Cache-Limit "33554432"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Log "var/log/apt"; Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2"; Unattended-Upgrade ""; Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins ""; Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "Debian stable"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- // Experimental Package: * Pin: release a=experimental,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 200 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 950 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable,o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages Pin-Priority: 960 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non- free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non- free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non- free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non- free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non- free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non- free -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-8 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.4.11.9-1 terminal-based package manager ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in -- no debconf information
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