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apt package

  1. Bug #74190
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 74190

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sardion (ubuntu-sardion) wrote : Re: [feisty] [apt] command line apt-get/aptitude breaks update-manager

There is no crash log for apt. Apt works fine.

Update-manager crashes. I can attach the log if you want, but it all boils down to the last line:

SystemError: E:Could not open file /var/lib/apt/extended_states - open (13 Permission denied), E:Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9 Bad file descriptor)

[root@wizardry:/var/crash]% ls -l /var/lib/apt/extended_states
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-01-12 17:58 /var/lib/apt/extended_states

Whenever I run aptitude from the command line (as root or via sudo, it creates the file extended_states but leaves it totally empty).

At present, I simply delete the extended_states file before running update-manager. Command line works fine by itself, update-manager fine by itself. Trying to mix them leads to the problem.