[maemo-users] problem with App manager

[From: daniel young]

 # cd /var/lib/apt && ls -la
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          304 Jan 31 13:45 .
drwxr-xr-x   29 root     root         2064 Jan 20 23:55 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8610 Jan 30 02:22 extended_states
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          160 Sep 22 03:22 periodic
i have 91 percent of the rootfs drive taken up.  last time i posted
this that is what somebody though but i have room

On 2/18/10, Gunter Ohrner <G.Ohrner at post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> (Disclaimer: I've not yet received my N900, so I've no idea of how it
> works internally. ;)
>
> Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
>>> (...)
>>>         E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists.new/lock -
>>>         open
>>> (2 No such file or directory)
>>> (...)
>>> of the dev.  apps that i installed filled up my root drive to much
>>> and something bad happened.  any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>> It looks like this /var/lib/apt/lists.new directory is a temporary
>> directory that is created to replace /var/lib/apt/lists after
>> refreshing the repos. You can probably just "rm -rf
>
> However, the error message sounds more as if creating the directory
> fails for some reason.
>
> Daniel, is there sufficient free space on your root partition?
>
> What does /var/lib/apt look like (cd /var/lib/apt && ls -la .)?
>
> However, if the rootfs space exhaustion was so bad it broke apt, it
> might have caused other trouble as well...
>
> Greetings,
>
>   Gunter
>
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