Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1.1 Severity: important aptitude is failing to retrieve package files. Or thinks it is failing.
For the purposes of this report, I simplified my sources.list to: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free removed all the cached package files in /var/lib/apt/lists, and ran aptitude update. This bombed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:812]$ sudo aptitude update Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release [62.9kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [4085kB] Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [52.1kB] Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [73.8kB] Fetched 4274kB in 23s (179kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems I again removed the package files, and ran apt-get update. This worked: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:808]$ sudo apt-get update Get: 1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [189B] Get: 2 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release [62.9kB] Get: 3 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [4085kB] Get: 4 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [52.1kB] Get: 5 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [73.8kB] Fetched 4274kB in 28s (149kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Therefore, it appears that the mirror is OK and aptitude is at fault. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.45 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1.1 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
