Re: apt-get not working anymore
Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de writes: Hi, Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:06 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: % rmadison apt apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | etch-m68k | source, m68k apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | oldstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.20.2+lenny1 |stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.20.2+squeeze1 | testing-proposed-updates | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.22.2 | testing | source, alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.22.2+b2 | testing | armel, ia64 apt | 0.7.23.1 | unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Reduce your sources.list, possibly to just unstable main, apt-get update, apt-get install apt, revert sources.list, enjoy. Uh, sorry to not making that clear enough. _I_ know how to (temporarily) fix that. But the problem is that the stable version has a hard limit which is not that far away from real setups. And I want not to hear the crying if every user add a bug report cause he is not able to fix it themself. The problem does not appear in stable systems. Only when you pile on repository after repository. Especialy if you pile on old-stable, stable, testing and unstable all together. And a simple upgrade to the unstable version is no solution as there is several dependencies which are incompatible between stable and unstable. (On my system this was only libapt-pkg-perl which makes several packages to get purged when installing the unstable version.) Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:18 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: APT::Cache-Limit 1; Doesn't help as the limit is hard coded in apt. Just look at the source. The problem was fixed in versions after stable. No surprise there. The problem is not the amount of memory used but the number of packages. The old apt can only handle 65536 packages and stable has somewhat above 2. So one release is fine. Two releases just work. 3 release can make it give the above error. Regards Klaus MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt-get not working anymore
Am Samstag 05 September 2009 schrieb Klaus Ethgen: Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:18 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: APT::Cache-Limit 1; Doesn't help as the limit is hard coded in apt. Just look at the source. The problem was fixed in versions after stable. Regards Klaus Ah, yes, I understand. So, as I am running unstable, this will not really help. But in stable there is (when i remember correctly), still an apt.conf, where you also can add the line above (the line actually belongs to there, I added it in the other file, as in later versions apt.conf is no more available. However, it works for me) If I understood you wrong, please apologize for the noise. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt-get not working anymore
Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de writes: Hi, maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too although I am not subscribed there. If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the locales. When I run any apt-get command I get the error: E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of. E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.ethz.ch_mirror_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. (The second line is just the one which is the drop too much.) This also happen with all locales set to C. The problem is that it is not possible anymore to update the system at all. I think that is a very critical bug. Is it really necessary to break all installations until this bug is fixed? It is known long enough for now. I have the version 0.7.20.2+lenny1 installed, so it seems to be the most recent version. (apt-cache doesn't work too so I can only view the web site) Regards Klaus % rmadison apt apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | etch-m68k | source, m68k apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | oldstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.20.2+lenny1 |stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.20.2+squeeze1 | testing-proposed-updates | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.22.2 | testing | source, alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.22.2+b2 | testing | armel, ia64 apt | 0.7.23.1 | unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Reduce your sources.list, possibly to just unstable main, apt-get update, apt-get install apt, revert sources.list, enjoy. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt-get not working anymore
Am Samstag 05 September 2009 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de writes: Hi, maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too although I am not subscribed there. If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the locales. When I run any apt-get command I get the error: E: Wow, you exceeded the number of versions this APT is capable of. E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.ethz.ch_mirror_debian_dists_experimental_main_b inary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. (The second line is just the one which is the drop too much.) This also happen with all locales set to C. The problem is that it is not possible anymore to update the system at all. I think that is a very critical bug. Is it really necessary to break all installations until this bug is fixed? It is known long enough for now. I have the version 0.7.20.2+lenny1 installed, so it seems to be the most recent version. (apt-cache doesn't work too so I can only view the web site) Regards Klaus Maybe this helps, as apt.conf is no more existent: add the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20archive APT::Cache-Limit 1; Hope this helps, as it increases memory. I know, this is only a workaround. Good luck! Hans-J. Ullrich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt-get not working anymore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:06 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: % rmadison apt apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | etch-m68k | source, m68k apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1 | oldstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.20.2+lenny1 |stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.20.2+squeeze1 | testing-proposed-updates | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.22.2 | testing | source, alpha, amd64, hppa, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc apt | 0.7.22.2+b2 | testing | armel, ia64 apt | 0.7.23.1 | unstable | source, alpha, amd64, armel, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Reduce your sources.list, possibly to just unstable main, apt-get update, apt-get install apt, revert sources.list, enjoy. Uh, sorry to not making that clear enough. _I_ know how to (temporarily) fix that. But the problem is that the stable version has a hard limit which is not that far away from real setups. And I want not to hear the crying if every user add a bug report cause he is not able to fix it themself. And a simple upgrade to the unstable version is no solution as there is several dependencies which are incompatible between stable and unstable. (On my system this was only libapt-pkg-perl which makes several packages to get purged when installing the unstable version.) Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:18 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: APT::Cache-Limit 1; Doesn't help as the limit is hard coded in apt. Just look at the source. The problem was fixed in versions after stable. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen kl...@ethgen.de Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSqLNlp+OKpjRpO3lAQr25wf9G+SQXr3Nh2BUkuaaxfwrsjeiHwgUZJmJ OFCyfIF1wAeT7ZdM25OSOGyHACTRMvDgAFD9A/d8cdDmntGBV2Z5vpVBsbQr1pBt yCuNXdOdrLU84CwvCrCOl7Qbh9N8UkQ1+uPQVDw6lysq2dA2y1ZLroWKahATVB4g S0HJm0U/G3Gc7olv0U4854KtoC39ZsP3vqx7x/3T1BOk8lG94XTTmAEOocgyn7bJ Sf7/+fGx40RhIxQ8BzWjZtNwOKaogvfgg4BpBMnh+ac8zNgRhIpOwny/G8ClN1tZ fGndybfwPD4f1I15qsNnNlQIvUpuwqISI90x3o9PbsrheHedntiHpg== =fQXZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt-get not working anymore
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:37:38PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too although I am not subscribed there. What exactly do you want to discuss on -devel which is not appropriate on the bug report or on -user? That bugs should get fixed? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
