On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Once you know what your particular error is then you can try to fix that. > Since you say it runs OK as a normal user it sounds like something bad has > happened to your cache files in /var/cache/apt/*.bin and erasing them will > surely make it run again.
Bzzt, wrong answer. IF there is corruption, track it down. Branden doesn't run any fancy dancy file systems(xfs/reiser/jfs), so don't try to blame it there. dpkg doesn't have problems(or he would have bitched at me). You can't just assume that your saved memory state is valid. *Something* is corrupting it. Just saying to remove them, and let them rebuild, is not the right answer.
