Platform: Intel i686, Debian 'potato' Package: apt (0.1.10), possibly libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 (2.91.63-1.1)
Kernel is 2.2.3 on one machine, and 2.2.2 on another, both exhibit the problems described below I'm not sure where the problem is, but i suspect its from glibc2.1. When I execute 'apt-get update', this happens: (my recent apt-get's and versions of what changed are listed below) I get the following error, which prevents apt from working stargate:/home/sean# apt-get update Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Packages Get http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US Packages Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Packages Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Packages Fetched 2434k in 21s (112k/s) Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...stargate:/home/sean# apt-get upgrade Updating package status cache...E: Line 3 in package file /var/lib/dpkg/status is too long.(2) E: You should probably re-run apt-get update I checked the status file, and it looks just fine (line 3 is probably only 20 characters long) Here are the apt call's i issued before things started getting flaky in apt: apt-get upgrade : the following packages were installed The following packages have been kept back fakeroot locales g++ libreadlineg2-dev libc6-dev ncurses-bin gcc bash sysvinit libc6 cpp apt libncurses4 libreadlineg2 Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ncurses-term [279k] (4.2-3.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ldso [185k] (1.9.10-1.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main ncurses-base [14.0k] (4.2-3.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main egcs-docs [443k] (2.91.63-1.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libncurses4-dbg [756k](4.2-3.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libncurses4-dev [512k](4.2-3.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main glibc-doc [2216k] (2.1.1-0pre1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main sharutils [117k] (4.2-9) Everything appeared to update normally, as apt is famous for. then (note i did not do an apt-get update between these calls) apt-get install g++ : The following extra packages will be installed: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev libc6-dev gcc libc6 cpp The following packages will be REMOVED: libstdc++2.9-dev timezones egcc checker The following NEW packages will be installed: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6 [1403k] (2.1.1-0pre1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 [109k] (2.91.63-1.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main g++ [1013k] (2.91.63-1.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main gcc [957k] (2.91.63-1.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libc6-dev [1997k] (2.1.1-0pre1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1-dev [233k] (2.91.63-1.1) Get http://http.us.debian.org potato/main cpp [110k] (2.91.63-1.1) Everything appeared to install/update/remove here as well
