[SOLVED] aptitude update chokes. (99% [9 Translation-en bzip2 0])

kaz2100 · 09-06-2010, 04:21 AM

Hya

Today, (Mon Sep 6 UTC 2010)
"aptitude update" hangs at the end complaining

Code:

99% [2 Translation-en bzip2 0]

This happens three of my Debian squeeze (one 32bit, two 64bit). They all have somewhat different /etc/apt/sources.list

Does anybody else experience similar situation?

the trooper · 09-06-2010, 05:06 AM

I had the same yesterday,seems to be working ok today.

kaz2100 · 09-06-2010, 05:52 AM

Hya

Thank you for your report.

It looks like that this is the problem.

So, I need to find a mirror without empty files.

Happy Penguins!

the trooper · 09-06-2010, 08:11 AM

Yes,it would appear the problem is with Debian Multimedia.
Here's what I have in my sources.list:

Code:

deb http://debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free
deb-src http://debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

This works for me currently.

jim_p · 09-06-2010, 11:59 PM

It seems the problem IS on some debian multimedia mirrors only.

I had to change my mirror in my sources.list and it was there for at least a year!
The new one I put there worked... for a day, then I changed it again.

Btw, commenting out the debian multimedia mirror at first did allow the update to finish flawlessly.

craigevil · 09-07-2010, 05:58 AM

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595812

It is not a bug in apt-get or aptitude, but a snafu in the dmm repos. All it takes is for one package to be messed up in a repo for it to cause apt/aptitude to snarl. Even though Christian is a DD his dmm repo is not an official Debian repo, a bug in it is not a bug in a Debian package.
Comment dmm it works, and on sid whatever the problem was it has been fixed even with dmm uncommented.The main dmm repo seems to work OK now at least on sid.

kaz2100 · 09-11-2010, 06:16 PM

Hya,

As as of now (Sat Sep 11 UTC), apt chokes, unless sources.list file is modified. I am trying to tweak options as suggested by posts #49 and #54 in this report.

However, after reading "man 5 apt.config" and "/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/*", I am not sure how to proceed. Also, apt-howto in www.debian.org says that it is obsolete.

So far, I have found that "apt-config dump" does NOT show language line, and simply putting "/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf" in /etc/apt/ makes "aptitude update" to revive under some circumstances.

I am not quite sure what is going on around me. Just an update.

Happy penguins!

craigevil · 09-11-2010, 11:07 PM

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list

The Apt Howto is obsolete because it is old and hasn't been updated in forever ( the howto not Apt).

Basic stable sources.list

Code:

##################
## Debian Stable  ##
##################
#Stable 
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free 
#Stable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free 

#Security Updates  http://www.debian.org/security/
#deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free 

# Debian Volatile http://www.debian.org/volatile/
# deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
# deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile-sloppy main contrib non-free

# Debian Stable Backports 
# For information visit - http://backports.debian.org/
# Secure apt: apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
#deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports lenny-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-free
List of DMM Mirrors http://debian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php

kaz2100 · 09-12-2010, 05:53 PM

Hya,

Yes, modified sources.list works. I remember that maintainer of Debian multimedia used to have (or has?) difficulty with bandwidth, if I am correct. Another reason is that I would like to learn how apt works. So post #7 was sent.

Happy Penguins!

kaz2100 · 09-14-2010, 12:51 AM

Hya,

I simply copy /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf into /etc/apt/, then modified it so that Aquire section looks like

Code:

Acquire
{
  Retries "0";
        Languages "none";
        Translation "none";
};

It looks like OK.

Happy Penguins!