> Can you be a bit more specific? stracing apt works fine for me. More info - this is a user-mode-linux system, host system is i386:
djinn:/home/tf# strace -f -o /tmp/apt.trace -e trace=file apt-get install konqueror Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kate kcontrol kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 kfind libarts1 libartsc0 libasound2 libaudio2 libcupsys2 libkonq4 liblcms1 libmad0 libmng1 libnetpbm10 libqt3c102-mt libvorbisenc2 libxcursor1 netpbm Suggested packages: konq-speaker aspell java-virtual-machine klisa alsa-base nas libqt3c102-mt-mysql Recommended packages: kdebase-doc gs-aladdin The following NEW packages will be installed: kate kcontrol kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4 kfind konqueror libarts1 libartsc0 libasound2 libaudio2 libcupsys2 libkonq4 liblcms1 libmad0 libmng1 libnetpbm10 libqt3c102-mt libvorbisenc2 libxcursor1 netpbm 0 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded. E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
