On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, gilson redrick wrote:

Hello, doctors:

Tanks for the "medication" so far. The "patient" is showing some improvement, but it's still in critical state.

"Touch /preferences" solved one problem; removing "/filters" solved the other.

Started synaptic and, for a try, clicked on 'Update'. At the end, got an error: could not open RPM package list file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_7.3- i386_base_pkglist.base

The file exists, but in a subdirectory. Both files there are zero (0) bytes long [or short, depending on your philosophy...]: linux:/var/state/apt/lists/partial # ls -A ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_7.3-i386_base_pkglist.base ftp.gwdg.de_pub_linux_suse_apt_SuSE_7.3-i386_base_release.base

With this error present and unresolved, synaptic stays grayed out; clicking on 'OK' in the error window, the whole thing closes. On the third try, I clicked the error window to close. It did, but synaptic stayed grayed out. Worse, it could not be closed, except with a 'kill'.

What's next?

Right now, all you can do is wait for the apt4rpm people to get their act back together. They have some trouble with the repositories right now, as can be seen on the web page. apt-get update doesn't work either, so synaptic has no chance of working. I'm also looking forward to seeing the repositories working again. Regards Ole