On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:06:09PM -0600, Sam TH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:04:32PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > You can try rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin - but that should not change anything > > (unless you have flaky hardware). > > > > I assume this output is from apt-get dist-upgrade? (you didn't give any > > context) > > > > Can you even duplicate it? > > I fixed the problem, by removing apt, all of /var/*/apt/, and /etc/apt, and > reinstalling with dpkg. > > However, removing /var/cache/apt/* and /var/state/apt/* was not enought to > fix it. So either the config files were breaking this (I just had apt.conf > and sources.list) or the apt installation was bad. I'm not sure. > > But it was repeatable, and was from dist-upgrade.
I recall getting a strange error like this one in connection with the recent changes in perl dependencies. Specifically, I believe I was trying to install an architecture: all package from sid on a potato system (apt 0.3.19). I just spent some time trying to reproduce the problem, but couldn't. If I come up with anything, I'll send it here. Note that in this case (as I remember it), I really was requesting an impossible (or at least very weird) operation from apt's perspective; however, the error messages were bogus and didn't explain the real problem. It took some investigation to figure out what the real problem was. -- - mdz
