[plug] Wierd apt message

[Russell Steicke]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:32:54PM +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> 
> I'm having all sorts of wierdness with apt-get atm.
> 
> I havent been able to apt-get anything, so I figured I'd do the apt-get
> update routine, and this consistantly fails out with this;-
> 
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> (etc)
> 
> Any idea whats going on here? I'm miffed and its an utter show stopper of
> a bug.

I've never seen this, but one thing to try would be to either remove
/var/lib/apt/lists/* (leaving the lock file and partial/ directory) or
rename /var/lib/apt/lists and mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists so you can
restore lists if things get worse here, then try apt-get update again.



-- 
Russell Steicke

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