Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist A power outage caused my /var/cache/apt/archives to be trashed to the point of nonexistence. After recovering, apt-get would not run until I manually recreated both /var/cache/apt/archives and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. Since the loss of the data in these directories is merely a performance issue, it might be a good idea to make apt automatically recreate them and continue gracefully -- a warning to the administrator about the data loss should suffice. Currently a slew of error messages appears, as below:
E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object ... * repeated for 3 screenfuls * Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 33 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2 No such file +or directory) E: Unable to lock the download directory -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 with bunk-1 packages by Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux wolverine 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
