On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:49:15AM +0000, Brian wrote: > 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?
Worked great! Thanks, Chris also.