Problem with Adept

[black300zx]

Whenever I try to install a package through adept package manager, I get the error

There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages.

If I try installing it using apt-get, I get the following error

E: Lists directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is missing.
E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.

The first time I noticed this was after I installed my new video card, although it had been a while since I tried installing anything, so that could be purely coincidental.

I imagine these two errors are directly related. I've searched around, and haven't found anything helpful. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit - Could a mod please move this to the Feisty Fawn section?

[bootdoc]

Re: Problem with Adept

do from konsole:
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial

sudo mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial

[dhfx]

Re: Problem with Adept

I have a problem similar to what the lead post mentioned. Under Edgy, when the recent samba updates from 3.0.22-1ubuntu4.2 to 4.3 came out, adept-updater downloaded the four items (samba, samba-common, libsmbclient, smbclient) and appeared to go through the installation, then gave me the "error committing changes" message.

My beef is that there is not enough information coming out to enable me to diagnose the problem: e.g., was one of the files corrupted on download, or is there a real incompatibility that would break something if the change were committed? If I want to rollback the download and try it again, do I need to delete the previously-spooled downloads, and if so, where are they saved - and is there a synchronization log file somewhere that also has to be deleted in order to allow downloading the files again?

Any help would be appreciated.

[integr8e]

Re: Problem with Adept

You probably have already done this, but run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install -f

sudo dpkg --configure -a

If those don't work, run the following series of commands:

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install samba samba-common libsmbclient smbclient

If you again receive errors, run the first series of commands again and post any error messages you receive.

[dhfx]

Re: Problem with Adept

Ran the first two commands above, then ran the updater to get the new samba modules (plus two other updates that have appeared meanwhile). Update went fine, no errors.

Thanks for the help. It would still be a good thing to have more detailed output from adept to identify the problem.