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Dax
Asked: 2016-03-19 23:50:52 +0800 CST

apt-cacher ng "an error occured while reading this file, some contents may have been ignored."

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I've been getting the following message every day from the apt-cacher-ng cron job:

/etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher-ng:
Error(s) occured while updating volatile index files for apt-cacher-ng.
Please visit http://proxy.localnet:3142/report.html to rerun the
expiration manually or check the error message(s) in the current log file(s).

When I run it, I always get errors on the exact same files. It is always the *.xz files.

An error occured while reading this file, some contents may have been ignored. Tag
Parsing metadata in debrep/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
An error occured while reading this file, some contents may have been ignored. Tag
Parsing metadata in debrep/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/Packages.xz
An error occured while reading this file, some contents may have been ignored. Tag
Parsing metadata in debrep/dists/jessie/main/source/Sources.xz

I delete them and the apt-cacher-ng web interface is happy, but as soon as I do an apt-get update on one of the clients. These files are back with exactly the same error.

I've been searching around for a solution to the, but can't seem to find anyone with this problem.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I'd exactly the same problem and found this official Debian bug report. Installing a newer version of apt-cacher-ng package solved the issue for me. If you're still using wheezy (like I do), try to download and install the backport manually.

    Cheers, Michael

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