On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > It rather smells like a kernel problem - particularly since 0.3.10slink > works.
Hmm.. 0.3.10slink working causes me to think there's no problem with the kernel since that would break all versions of apt.. > > Can you show me a screen dump of it failing at least? Here it is.. TIA endre dawn:~# apt-get update Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/main Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/main Release Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/contrib Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/contrib Release Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-free Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-free Release Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Err ftp://ftp.elte.hu slink/main Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu slink/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu slink/contrib Packages Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu slink/contrib Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu slink/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu slink/non-free Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/contrib Packages Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/contrib Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/non-free Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/main Sources Get:1 ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/main Release Ign ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/contrib Sources Get:2 ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/contrib Release Ign ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/contrib Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-free Sources Get:3 ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-free Release Ign ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-free Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/main Sources Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/contrib Sources Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/contrib Release Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/non-free Sources Hit ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/non-US/non-free Release Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Release Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/Release Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/Release Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.elte.hu/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages Read error - read (9 Bad file descriptor) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'ftp://ftp.elte.hu potato/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.elte.hu_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. dawn:~#

