[Aptitude-devel] Bug#670222: E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 24 April 2012 17:20, Vladimir Stavrinov <vstavrinov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 05:08:39PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>
>> Did the program hang after downloading the package files?
>
> Yes, here is examples of output:
>
> Fetched 114 MB in 2min 38s (718 kB/s)
> E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp
> Reading package lists...
>
> or
>
> Writing extended state information...
> E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp
> Reading package lists...
>
> I am not sure about first example, because I've take it from log, but in
> last case I saw many times it hang up exactly after output:
>
> Writing extended state information...
>

Ok, this looks related to -d infinite loop aka #629266.  A fix for
that will be released shortly.  In the meantime could you try the
patch there and report if it solves this problem also?