[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or directory)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + unreproducible


Hi,

2015-09-25 15:54 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
>I bet the problem has something to do with the residue left with the
>_apt owner stuff...
>
># find /var/lib/apt/lists/partial -ls
> 49345   17 drwx------   2 _apt     root        16384 Sep 25 18:52 /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
> 49381   18 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        18409 Aug 15 09:21 /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_contrib_i18n_Translation-en
>
>
>OK I moved that file to /tmp and now indeed "aptitude update" is
>working.
>
>I moved it back, and "aptitude update" is still working (but maybe that
>is because it was freshly updated.)
>
>As this is on a "sneakernet" disk, I use
>   chown root:root lists
>   chown _apt:root lists/partial
>at boot.
>
>OK I'll use
>   chown -R _apt:root lists/partial
>or better yet
>   find lists/partial -type f -delete

Have you seen this problem with the recent updates?

I saw that apt made changes related to this in the last few versions
(1.1~exp* and after moving to unstable).


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>