According to Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Have you tried removing the files under /var/state/apt/lists?
Nope. > These are what is being read during the "Reading Package Lists..." > phase. But this information revealed the reason for the behaviour I reported: the problem spot was references to now defunct sunsite.tut.fi mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list. I removed those and everything was working fine again. I guess this is still worth a proper bug report for APT. -- * H e i k k i K a n t o l a * | Report all instances that you see IRC: Hezu | of spam abuse. Civilized people need E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to treat their meat products with WWW: <URL:http://www.iki.fi/hezu/>| more respect :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]