On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:28:35AM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote:
| I was running an update on my sid system, and everything seemed to be
| going fine until it died with the following:
|
| Reading Package Lists... Error!
| E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
| E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
apt-get update
That will update the package lists, assuming of course that you have
enough disk space for them.
| Everything I try to do results in this error. When this happened, I
| noticed that /var was at 99% usage, so I deleted the .deb's in
| /var/cache/apt/archive to free up some room (there were lots of old
| .deb's there in addition to the fresh ones it just got). I figured that
| if the .deb's it wanted wern't there, it would just reget them.
You can remove the .debs if you don't need them anymore. Sometimes it
is really good to have them -- suppose you upgrade and that new
package is broken, you can downgrade to the previous version if you
still have the package. At any rate, 'apt-get autoclean' will remove
some of the old ones for you.
HTH,
-D
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