[COLUG] apt-cacher error

[Mike Schoenborn]

At 07:41 AM 5/23/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 and have installed apt-cacher. I added an
>additional repository which now seems defunct. I've since deleted that
>repository, by commenting it out in /etc/apt/sources.list but I'm still
>getting a cron error every day:
>
>===============
>/etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher:
>
>zcat: /var/cache/apt-cacher/temp/free.linux.hp.com_~brett_seveas_freenx_dists_dapper-saveas_freenx_binary-i386_Packages.gz: unexpected end of file
>Error processing
>free.linux.hp.com_~brett_seveas_freenx_dists_dapper-saveas_freenx_binary-i386_Packages.gz in /var/cache/apt-cacher/packages, cleanup stopped.
>Remove the file if the repository is no longer interesting and the
>packages pulled from it are to be removed.
>run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/apt-cacher exited with return code 1
>==============
>
>
>I've tried deleting the file as it suggests, but something seems to be
>recreating it as a 0-byte file.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mark

Does an "apt-get update" help?