--- Wolfgang_Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I thought the following is a problem which several people encountered > before, and that there was a workaround for it, but I could not find > anything about it with Google or in my local archive of the mailing > lists. > > In a fresh J1 installation, doing "apt-get install screen" (or the same > with any other package) hangs until I abort it with ^C. The last thing > it prints is "18% [Working]", sometimes with 25%, sometimes with 0%, and > sometimes even right before it would print this line. > > Starting it in rpctrace made it abort with > > E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/ > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers that help in solving this problem. > > Cheers, > GNU/Wolfgang >
Well, it seems the /var is not writable. So you probably show us what fsysopts /var/cache/apt shows. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com