every few days i run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to keep my 'potato' system up to date. today I see the following:
stimpy:~# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Get:1 http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages [14.4kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages [835kB] Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release Get:3 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages [29B] Get:4 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release [114B] Get:5 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages [3625B] Get:6 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release [115B] Get:7 http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release [100B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Get:8 http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release [103B] Get:9 http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages [6047B] Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Release Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Release [93B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Get:11 http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release [96B] Get:12 http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages [73.5kB] Get:13 http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release [97B] Fetched 933kB in 2m23s (6504B/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/non-us.debian.org_debian-non-US_dists_stable_non-US_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files So I ran it again with the same results. I have not changed anything in my system. My sources.list looks like: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free I've even went into /var/state/lists and wacked all of the 'old' ones in there and then rebuilt using apt-get update again. What's the scoop? Bill
