Bug#880170: aptitude: Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)

I can reproduce this on command, and have two workarounds, (one dirty, one ugly). I'm using FAI on Debian 9.13. So, the problem is, that when apt writes a translations related file, it is writing a symlink to the extracted .bz2, rather than writing a .bz2 file. Problem reproduction: I am using

Bug#880170: aptitude: Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)

Package: apt Followup-For: Bug #880170 Hi, I just also ran into this problem. It's on a stretch system, so with an older apt, but maybe my observations help regardless. I saw this error running `aptitude update`. It happened with the stretch security updates translation file for contrib and non-

Bug#880170: aptitude: Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)

<150935636765.12708.6154635335479747081.reportbug@think> Hi, On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:39:27AM +0100, Mykola Nikishov wrote: > $ sudo aptitude update > ... > W: Failed to fetch > tor+http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/contrib/i18n/Translation-en: > BZ2_bzread: > /var/lib/apt/lis

Bug#880170: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#880170: aptitude: Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)

Control: reassign -1 apt 1.5 Hi Mykola, thanks for the bug report. Mykola Nikishov wrote: > Package: aptitude […] > $ sudo aptitude update > ... > W: Failed to fetch > tor+http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/contrib/i18n/Translation-en: > BZ2_bzread: > /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/

Bug#880170: aptitude: Read error (-5: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC)

Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.9-1 Severity: normal $ sudo aptitude update ... W: Failed to fetch tor+http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/contrib/i18n/Translation-en: BZ2_bzread: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_contrib_i18n_Translation-en.bz2 Re