Package: apt Version: 0.1.9 I tried to demonstrate debian's ease of maintenance to my brother, so I invoked apt-get while talking to him. It did not work ;-(
Reproduction of the bug is simple and stable: Become root, then ytalk -x to some other user. >From within ytalk issue <Esc>-s to open a shell (gets displayed to your party as well), and then enter, e.g. localhost:/tmp# apt-get update Get ftp://ftp.at.debian.org slink/non-US Packages Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/contrib Packages Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/main Packages Get ftp://ftp.debian.org slink/non-free Packages 83% [Packages `Logging in' 0] [Packages `Disconnecting' 0/70.3k 0%]Waited but no thing was there Waited but nothing was there Waited but nothing was there Waited but nothing was there Waited but nothing was there ... and this goes on for ever... The same occurs if I issue apt-get install package. You have to do a clean update from a normal terminal afterwards to fix the package database. Here is some info of my system: localhost:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US slink non-US #deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US #deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/debian dists/released/ #deb ftp://gnomeftp.wgn.net/pub/gnome/debian dists/released/ #deb http://www.debian.org/~bma/e-cvs/debs/ ./ #deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free #deb file:/usr/home/plm/ mama . #deb http://master.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ xfree86-3331/ #deb http://netgod.net x/ #http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free #deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian slink main localhost:/# uname -a Linux localhost 2.2.10 #2 Fri Jul 16 13:52:40 EEST 1999 i586 unknown localhost:/# ls -l /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 3 19:38 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.7.so I am using slink (as can be seen from my sources.list). Cheers, Paul
