[Aptitude-devel] Bug#880170: aptitude: Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)

[Mykola Nikishov]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.9-1
Severity: normal

$ sudo aptitude update 
...
W: Failed to fetch tor+http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/contrib/i18n/Translation-en: BZ2_bzread: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_contrib_i18n_Translation-en.bz2 Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Removing the file in question doesn't help, an error persists.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: screen-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.9
Compiler: g++ 7.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffdbb25000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f6eacfe5000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f6eacdb5000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f6eacb8b000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f6eac984000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f6eac689000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f6eac381000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f6eac169000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f6eabf50000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f6eabd4c000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f6eab941000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f6eab724000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f6eab3a2000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f6eab09e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f6eaae87000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f6eaaae8000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f6eaa8d1000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f6eaa6b7000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f6eaa4a7000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f6eaa281000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f6eaa06c000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f6ea9e4e000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f6ead9a2000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f6ea9c4a000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f6ea9a42000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f6ea983d000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (70, 'unstable'), (60, 'testing'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.9-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.5
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libc6                      2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-6
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.3.0-18
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.20.1-2
ii  libstdc++6                 6.3.0-18
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.4-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  <none>
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.10

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
pn  tasksel                         <none>

-- no debconf information