Comment 38 for bug 756317

Tim Hortons' captive portals break apt. Do they have Tim Horton's coffee
shop in your neck of the woods?

Bryan Harris, PE
Research Engineer
Structures and Materials Evaluation Group
University of Dayton Research Institute
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http://www.udri.udayton.edu/
(937) 229-5561

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>wrote:

> No. Corrupted files in /var/lib/apt/lists will still produce errors. APT
> downloads files to a "partial" subdirectory, and moves them to the lists
> directory if they verify correctly (contain a Package: field). Those,
> corrupt files cannot end up in the lists directory.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/756317
>
> Title:
> Captive portals may corrupt apt translation indices
>
> Status in "apt" package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in "apt" package in Debian:
> New
>
> 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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