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

[Axel Beckert]

Control: reassign -1 apt 1.5

Hi Mykola,

thanks for the bug report.

Mykola Nikishov wrote:
> Package: aptitude
[…]
> $ 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.

In the past, I've seen such deadlocks occassionally. But haven't had
such a case for one or two years now. Back then it usually sufficed to
also remove the according file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ or, in the worst
case, to empty /var/lib/apt/lists/ completely.

Since things like package list downloads are not done by aptitude
itself but by calling functions from libapt-*, I'm reassigning this to
apt.

		Regards, Axel
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