On Friday 22 January 2016 13:23:25 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2016 11:49:15 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_bina > > >ry -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? > > I had this problem once and had to delete the package cache and
theN update > to let it rebuild. > > Lisi