[Bug 756317] Re: Captive portals may corrupt apt translation indices

[Patrick Wigmore]

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 haven't got enough information to
resolve this.

Unfortunately I did not retain a copy of the files I removed, so they
cannot be analysed, though I have saved a copy of the current captive
portal page if anyone wants me to upload it. (It might differ from the
one that triggered the bug for me though.)

Apologies for double comment.

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Title:
  Captive portals may corrupt apt translation indices

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I have an adsl modem which returns an html page if the adsl link is
  broken. This page ends as the content of the apt cache files stored in
  /var/lib/apt/lists, which breaks apt.

  The only way to make apt work again is to delete all the files stored
  in /var/lib/apt/lists.

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