Hi, Quoting Michael Stapelberg (2017-04-08 11:21:46) > I may very well be doing something wrong, but I repeatedly run into > the following problem and have no clue as to how to approach fixing > it. > > Every once in a while, an sbuild invocation will fail with the > following message: > > Reading package lists... > E: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources.diff_Index - open (2: No such file or directory) > E: apt-get update failed > > I can fix this issue by running “sbuild-update -u unstable” twice > (!). The first run fails with the same error message (but stores the > updated package lists), the second run will do the actual update. > > Is this a misconfiguration on my end, or a bug in sbuild/schroot/apt? > > Find a full session transcript attached. I never encountered this error message. Neither from running sbuild nor from running apt-get update. Maybe apt people have a clue about what this means? I CC-ed their list. Michael, is it possible for you to create a chroot from scratch using sbuild-createchroot and then reliably reproduce the problem from there? Then I could have a look at the problem myself. Thanks! cheers, josch
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