On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Branden Robinson 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. > > Nothing bad had happened to them:
> E: Unable to write mmap - msync (28 No space left on device) > What business does apt-cache have trying to rebuild the cache if I run it > as root? All I did was ask it to read something. It is out of date and it needs to freshen it up. I think you can use the --no-generate option to tell it you really just want to query the stale data, but the results for some queries might not be so good. Jason
