On Wednesday 04 November 2009 11:38:01 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi all, > > when I try to get an update, I get the following error message: > > Get:10 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/contrib 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff > [62.0kB] > Get:11 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/non-free 2009-11-04-0016.39.pdiff > [124kB] > E: Method rred has died unexpectedly! > E: Sub-process rred received a segmentation fault. > > Seems, the cache-limit is set too low, or the packagefile is too big. > > My cachelimit is set to > > APT::Cache-Limit "100000000"; > > which should be enough, shouldn't it? I tried to increase it, but it had no > effect. Maybe there is something wrong in the repository? > > Best regards > > Hans >
Yes, there's a pdiff file corrupt. A simple workaround is to tell apt/aptitude to get the full files, not the pdiffs, for this one time: aptitude update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false Kind regards Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
