Bug#495331: apt: same here
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Followup-For: Bug #495331
I ran across the same problem yesterday. I also moved from KDE 3.5 to 4.1 yesterday,
but this is probably not related.
What I tried which didn't help:
* Changing APT::Cache-Limit from 22582912 to 225829120 and even 2258291200
* Deleting
/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-de
What I tried which did help:
* "LANG=C apt-get update"
* removing some sources (stable) from my list
You might be able to reproduce the problem with "LANG=de_DE apt-get update"
BTW, the message "Toll, Sie haben die Anzahl an Beschreibungen überschritten, die APT
handhaben kann." roughly translates to: "Great, you exceeded the number of descriptions
APT can handle." One part of bug fixing might be to improve this message...
-- 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::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::Cache-Limit "2258291200";
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/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 150
Package: *
Pin: release a=etch
Pin-Priority: 150
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 150
Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny
Pin-Priority: 150
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 101
# Pin-Priority: 1
Package: lintian linda piuparts pbuilder dpkg-dev dh-make debhelper
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 999
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# etch (stable)
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.eu.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free
# deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main
# lenny (testing)
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.eu.debian.org lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
# sid / unstable
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# deb ftp://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sid/volatile main
deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# experimental
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
# Multimedia-Quelle
deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ testing main
deb http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.uni-kl.de/debian-multimedia/ testing main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.8-1 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
ii synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager
ii wajig 2.0.38 simplified Debian package manageme
-- no debconf information
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