On Fri 22 Jan 2016 at 20:55:05 +1000, Weaver wrote: > Am receiving this on 'aptitude update'. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease > [ ERR] Reading package lists > E: Unable to parse package file > /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.au.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages > (1) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: The package cache file is corrupted > E: Couldn't rebuild package cache > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I'm able to run the update process without incident, and it finishes > cleanly. > Is anybody else getting this? > /etc/apt/sources.list is fine, with contrib included as per usual, so I can > only assume it's unavailable at the server end. > > Other than that, there was a power failure during the night that might have > done some damage, and I might have to begin a data rescue scenario.
Comment out everything in sources.list. Update. /var/lib/apt/lists/ should now have only /partial and lock. Uncomment a ftp.au.debian.org line, perhaps without contrib, Update. Continue adding to sources.list and updating How does that go?
