> It's definitely not an apt-file problem if apt-helper exits. It seems to me > that > the file is broken. I'd assume your memory or hard disk is failing, or you > force > rebooted while/after apt(-get) update was running and writing that file and we > maybe do not sync it correctly. Or maybe it's a bug in lz4 decompressor - I > don't > know. > > In either case, I've not seen this before. You could also try using "lz4cat" > from liblz4-tool, that should fail as well. I'd say upload the file, but it's > probably about 60-90 MB or so, so probably not really an option. >
It is quite strange indeed: i have installed liblz4-tool, and the described behaviour has vanished. After purging liblz4-tool, the correct exptected behvaiour of apt-file remains Maybe this was due to a problem with the synchronisation of the debian packages... Sorry for the noise Best Ara
