Thank you for your reply - I have since reinstalled and all systems are working ok. You can now close the bug out as it was all due to bad manipulation on my part.
I should have thought of ls -l for the file details, still learning... On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:02 +0000, Micah Cowan wrote: > You can get the size of a file with the command (in the terminal): "ls > -l /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_dists_sarge_main_binary- > i386_Packages". > > I strongly suspect the answer you'll end up getting, is that a > sources.list file with debian repositories is not a supported > configuration, and that we must therefore close this bug out; but I'm > not comfortable saying that _just_ yet. However, you're probably right > that a reinstall may be necessary: chances are pretty good that various > packages have gotten a bit messed up. > > It still doesn't seem like you should get that sort of error from this > sort of problem, though (which is why I haven't closed the bug out). > -- error running apt-get update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120799 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
