From: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 28502@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#28502: 25.3; list-packages ends with "error in process filter: End of file during parsing"
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:50:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp4k19ha.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poacci6c.fsf@web.de>
On Wed 27 Sep 2017 at 14:47, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>> Perhaps there should be some sort of package-force-archive-refresh
>> function to force overwriting the archive contents?
>
> No, normally this should never happen, there seems to be a problem with
> inconsistent or broken package caches. We need to find out what goes
> wrong.
I'm betting that during a package-refresh-contents call the internet disconnected and that this somehow messed up the package cache.
>
> Have you made a backup of the files you deleted btw? They could be
> useful for debugging.
No, unfortunately I didn't. If it happens again I will do so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-27 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-18 17:48 bug#28502: 25.3; list-packages ends with "error in process filter: End of file during parsing" Alex Branham
2017-09-27 0:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-27 13:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-27 14:06 ` Alex Branham
2017-09-27 14:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-27 14:50 ` Alex Branham [this message]
2017-09-29 14:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-20 22:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-21 10:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-21 11:50 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-21 1:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-29 13:00 ` Stefan Kangas
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