On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote: > I have discovered a work-round for today: If I delete one line from > the final description in the Packages file, apt-get and apt-cache > work without a problem. The description section is 14 lines long > before deleting the final line, so this is a very odd one. I can't > say whether the same is true of the Packages file I sent in the > original bug report.
Sounds like your cache files were corrupted by something, there has recently been a spade of XFS related reports just like this. rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin Jason
