[Bug 1063097] Re: Deal with low level apt error messages

Matthew Paul Thomas mpt at canonical.com
Tue Dec 9 13:35:32 UTC 2014


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Title:
  Deal with low level apt error messages

Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  There can be an exception from apt  at several times. Unfortunately
  APT only shows a translated error message and no codes. Often it is
  unclear what the user should do.

  Furthermore there can be a broken system, e.g. delted
  /var/lib/dpkg/updates #791715 or failing to open TagSection

  E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/br.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_universe_binary-i386_Packages, E:The
  package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

  E:Write error - write (28: No space left on device), E:Can't mmap an
  empty file, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or
  opened.

  E: The package google-chrome-stable needs to be reinstalled, but I
  can't find an archive for it.

  E:Type 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/pdfmod-team/ppa/ubuntu' is not known
  on line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdfmod-team-ppa-
  maverick.list

  SystemError: E:The package index files are corrupted. No Filename:
  field for package ubufox.

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