Comment 12 for bug 24626

Oh-kay now.

When my problem popped up, I was unable to update, upgrade, or anything of the sort. Adept and synaptic both failed to start, and apt-get commands terminated with errors. Errors included the phrase The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

I did a search on that phrase, and found several pages. Almost all of those that I opened referred to a cache limit. Rather than adjust the cache limit, I just edited my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30cache with a comment (#) in front of the single line found there.

Adept is now updating for me.

It seems pretty obvious that my system COULD BE overwhelmed by the monster cache from hell - but the likelihood of that happening seems pretty slim. ;)

If I run into problems, I will come back to report that my unsupported fix didnt work so well.........