On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:10 +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:23:10AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Package: apt-cacher
> > Version: 1.6.1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > My nightly cron job failed with
> > -----------------------------------------
> > /etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher:
> > Unable to update /mainline/dists/testing/main/source/Sources.bz2 . Network
> > problems?
> > Run /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl with -v to get more details.
> > Cleanup aborted since cached data may be damaged.
> > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher exited with return code 4
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > When I ran
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > corn:/# /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl -v
> > Invoked as root, changing to www-data:www-data and re-execing.
> > # ......
> > GET /mainline/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
> > GET /mainline/dists/testing/main/source/Sources.bz2
> > Unable to update /mainline/dists/testing/main/source/Sources.bz2 . Network
> > problems?
> > Run /usr/share/apt-cacher/apt-cacher-cleanup.pl with -v to get more details.
> > Cleanup aborted since cached data may be damaged.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Since the run was a couple hours after the nightly job, and since all
> > the other files transferred OK, it seems unlikely it is a network
> > problem.
> >
> > I poked around the cache. The only thing I noticed was that private/
> > has a 711 byte file
> > mainline_dists_testing_main_source_Sources.bz2.notify.
> >
> > The error message, particularly the advice to use -v when run with -v,
> > doesn't seem too helpful.
>
> Certainly that is true. I have already changed it in version 1.6.2 which
> I am doing final tests on now.
>
> Has the error gone away?
No.
> It is pretty non-specific. It is really there
> to prevent the cache being emptied by intermittent errors in updating
> the index files.
>
> Or am I missing your particular concern?
Apart from the error message, my main concern is that the cleanup isn't
working and it sounds as if the stuff in the cache is in a bad state
("cached data may be damaged"). And I don't know how to fix it. So, my
questions are
1) is apt-cacher safe to use for normal operations?
2) if safe, will it be current?
3) how can I fix or diagnose the problem?
Thanks.
>
> Mark
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