Broke my Apt-get

ecturkum · 02-15-2007, 08:56 PM

Hi All,
newbie klutz broke my synaptic program somehow. I can't even say what I did to mess it up.

Running FC6 this is the error message I get

E: Error occured while processing gdeskcal (CollectFileProvides)
E: Problem with MergeFileProvides /var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_extras_6_i386_repodata_primary.xml
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

can someone tell me how to repair this problem. I want to think its nothing major.

Thanks in advance

cgjones · 02-15-2007, 10:59 PM

Just a thought. In Synaptic, Go to Edit >> Fix Broken Packages. Not sure if this will help with your problem though.

nx5000 · 02-16-2007, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ecturkum

/var/lib/apt/lists/download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_extras_6_i386_repodata_primary.xml
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Did you run an apt-get update? Maybe it's because download.fedora.redhat.com/... is not accessible anymore or you have removed the source line and didn't update..?

ecturkum · 02-16-2007, 07:17 AM

I actually tried to fix broken files but that did nothing, I think that thats not related.
Nx5000,
Actually that ended up working after I re-booted.

Thank you,

frantique · 02-28-2007, 05:01 AM

Same problem here as well. I tried to reset the apt-get .bin files as well, but it did not helped. Also I fetched the problematic files with wget, and the server can be reached. Is any hidden switch in apt-get to see a verbose debug?

nx5000 · 02-28-2007, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Debug
{
pkgProblemResolver "false";
pkgDepCache::AutoInstall "false"; // what packages apt install to satify dependencies
pkgAcquire "false";
pkgAcquire::Worker "false";
pkgAcquire::Auth "false";
pkgDPkgPM "false";
pkgDPkgProgressReporting "false";
pkgOrderList "false";
BuildDeps "false";

pkgInitialize "false"; // This one will dump the configuration space
NoLocking "false";
Acquire::Ftp "false"; // Show ftp command traffic
Acquire::Http "false"; // Show http command traffic
Acquire::gpgv "false"; // Show the gpgv traffic
aptcdrom "false"; // Show found package files
IdentCdrom "false";

}

You have all these options. Enable the ones you want in /etc/apt/apt.conf.

frantique · 02-28-2007, 05:28 AM

I made some investigation:
The error starts at the file download.fedora.redhat.com_pub_fedora_linux_core_updates_6_i386_repodata_filelists.xml
This file seems to be allright and complete.
The funny part about the filelist.xml:
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
It seems to me that while the archive was created, something went wrong. It is not a gzip problem, because it manages the other repo's files correctly.

frantique · 02-28-2007, 05:50 AM

Where can I find some mirror for extras?

frantique · 02-28-2007, 06:08 AM

So, I found a solution:
In /etc/apt/sources.list.d:
FILE: fedora-extras.list

# Fedora Extras
#repomd http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/extras/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/
repomd http://dl.atrpms.net/ fc$(VERSION)-$(ARCH)/redhat/extras/
# Debug packages
# repomd http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/extras/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/debug/
# Sources
#repomd-src http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/extras/$(VERSION)/SRPMS/

FILE: fedora-updates.list
# Fedora Core
#repomd http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/core/updates/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/
repomd ftp://ftp.tvnet.hu/pub/ fedora/linux/core/updates/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/
# Debug packages
#repomd http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/core/updates/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH)/debug/
# sources
#repomd-src http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/ fedora/linux/core/updates/$(VERSION)/SRPMS/

This will fix the problem.