[PlanetCCRMA] Apt-Get stalls

[steven yi]

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for the quick reply!

> I assume you tried erasing that repository from the sources.list and
> doing an apt-get update to see if that fixes the problem?

Yeah, I commented the sources out and no luck.

> > I've tried killing the /etc/apt dir and the cache dir for apt and
> > reinstalling apt and apt-devel, but no luck.  I also killed all RPM
locks
> > and issued a "rpm -vv --rebuilddb".  Still hangs.
>
> You mean apt-get hangs, right? Does a "rpm -q -a" get to the end of the
> package list or does it also hang?

...

> It should be enough to remove the repository that is causing the problem
> from the sources.list file.
>
> At this point you could:
>   rpm -e --nodeps apt apt-devel
> Reinstall the apt rpms, redo the apt.conf and sources.list configuration
> and try an "apt-get update" to see if everything is back to normal.
>
> It would help to have the exact error message, of course.
> -- Fernando

I'll try all of this when I have a chance (won't be until tomorrow though)
and will report back.  Thanks again!

steven