Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.7
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
unattended-upgrades regularly complained about
(cf.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/1366708):
| E:Problem renaming the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin.WfLyE7 to
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - rename (2: No such file or directory)
| W:You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Googling brought up
https://bugs.launchpad.net/landscape-client/+bug/1091137:
| When the landscape-client runs apt-get update, it can return an error like
this:
| E: Problem renaming the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin.PGPOhV to
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - rename (2: No such file or directory)
| W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
| This can happen if someone is running apt-get clean, while the update is
happening. apt-get clean
| removes all pkgcache.bin files, including the temporary ones that apt-get
update uses
| to rebuild the cache. This error is harmless, since pkgcache.bin should also
have been
| removed, and thus the next time the cache will be opened the cache will be
rebuilt.
| I.e, we should ignore the error above as to not cause intermittent alerts in
the Landscape
| server, that the user can't do anything to resolve.
And indeed the error is reproducable by:
| scfc@toolsbeta-jessie3:~$ while sudo apt-get clean; do :; done sudo apt-get
update; kill -HUP %%
| [1] 6241
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia InRelease
| Hit http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie InRelease
| Hit http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie-updates InRelease
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/main Sources
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/backports Sources
| Get:1 http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie/main Sources/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
| Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/thirdparty Sources
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/main amd64 Packages
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/backports amd64 Packages
| Hit http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/thirdparty amd64 Packages
| Get:2 http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
[7,876 B]
| Get:3 http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie/main Translation-en/DiffIndex
[7,876 B]
| Hit http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie-updates/main Sources
| Hit http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
| Hit http://mirrors.wikimedia.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en
| Ign http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/backports Translation-en_US
| Ign http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/backports Translation-en
| Ign http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/main Translation-en_US
| Ign http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/main Translation-en
| Ign http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/thirdparty Translation-en_US
| Ign http://apt.wikimedia.org jessie-wikimedia/thirdparty Translation-en
| Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources
| Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
| Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en
| Fetched 23.6 kB in 1s (12.2 kB/s)
| Problem renaming the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin.ZDdbP3 to
/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - rename (2: No such file or directory)
| Problem renaming the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin.93xAUQ to
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - rename (2: No such file or directory)
| The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
| Can't call method policy on an undefined value at
/usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 56.
| E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'test -x
/usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions -i'
| E: Sub-process returned an error code
| scfc@toolsbeta-jessie3:~$
IMHO apt-get should not delete temporary files owned by another
process.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT ;
APT::Architecture amd64;
APT::Build-Essential ;
APT::Build-Essential:: build-essential;
APT::Install-Recommends 0;
APT::Install-Suggests 0;
APT::NeverAutoRemove ;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^firmware-linux.*;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-firmware$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-headers-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-image-extra-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-signed-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^kfreebsd-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^kfreebsd-headers-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^gnumach-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^.*-modules-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^.*-kernel-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: ^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$;
APT::NeverAutoRemove::