Speicherzugriffsfehleresen... 97%

OK, Debian is strange. I just added a new package source to my sources.list which now looks like this:

deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

Then I added this to /etc/apt/apt.conf

APT::Default-Release "stable";

Now I naively thought I could just run apt-get update. ERRR. Wrong! Right at the end I was greeted with this:

Speicherzugriffsfehleresen... 97%

What a charming misspelled useless cryptic error message, just the way I like them. After some research I found out that this message seems to read

Segmentation faultsts ... x%

on English systems. Some more research brought me here. Possibly some good tips there, but none of them helped.

What did help was this: Increase the cache limit for apt-get! Add this to your apt.conf:

APT::Cache-Limit "20000000";

If it still doesn’t work, you might have to increase it even more. It would have saved me a lot of time if apt-get would just tell me “Your cache size is too small for the selected number of package sources. Increase the cache limit by setting the APT::Cache-Limit in your apt.conf file, for example APT::Cache-Limit “20000000”;”

Oh well.

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