I just spent the last two hours scrambling because thi s error happened right when I was upgrading the kernel. I was _this_ close to wiping the whole disk and doing a fresh net install, but I was able to recover by fetching, then installing, aptitude and synaptic from unstable.
I think the severity should be higher on this bug because periodic updates are failing, not to mention situations like mine where the failure happened while the system was being maintained and leaving the system in an inconsistent state with no rhyme or reason given and only one tool left to fix it (apt) is potentially catastrophic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org