[plug] Wierd apt message

[Russell Steicke]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:12:13PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20050131060937.GB7299 at postoffice.wa.bom.gov.au>
> on Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:09:38PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:32:54PM +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > > E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
> > 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.
> 
> Also, in thinking about why this would happen in the first place, I
> suppose you should check for free disk space, free swap memory, and
> directory permissions.

Good point.  I jumped ahead a bit there.



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