Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the bug by deliberately running apt
update while the captive portal is in effect.
I think I must have hit some obscure edge case that isn't covered by the
existing fix. Maybe something to do with switching networks during an
automatic update? Who knows. Clearly I
I believe I have just experienced this bug in xenial with apt 1.2.32.
Files in /var/lib/apt/lists contained HTML from a captive portal, breaking apt
until they were removed.
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Title:
Captive portals may corrupt apt translation indices
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Come on guys, Trusty users still encounter the issue.
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Seeing a bunch of reports about Ubiquity crashing and showing the same
MergeList error in translation files, I insist that the fix for this
issue *must* be backported to Trusty.
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It's always the same file that is corrupted.
/var/lib/apt/lists/za.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-
updates_main_i18n_Translation-en
That's enough to mark it as a duplicate. APT was vulnerable precisely to the
corrupted translation files.
If you don't believe (and have enough time), look
** Changed in: apt (Debian)
Status: New = Fix Released
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I open a possible duplicate bug #1343205, and it was marked as a
duplicate by Monsta, but...
The symptoms of this in my case are different.
1. It's always the same file that is corrupted.
/var/lib/apt/lists/za.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en
2. This
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