[PlanetCCRMA] Apt-Get stalls

[Steve Harris]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:29:03 +0000, Steven Yi wrote:
> >Where you able to do an "rpm -q -a" and have it list all packages?
> 
> Yes, this works fine for me.
> 
> >Try also to explicitly delete the package databases:
> > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
> > /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
> >And then do an "apt-get update"
> >
> 
> This has gotten me a little bit further, as now the "Reading Package 
> Lists..." goes up to 66%.   I found some messages online with someone else 
> having similar problems, so hopefully will get somewhere with it later 
> tonight.

Not that it helps, but someone at work said this was happening to him too.
I have an identical machine with a nearly identical OS (mine was upgraded
from RH8 to 9, his is native 9), and it works fine for me.

- Steve