Comment 8 for bug 120799

Thank you for your reply - I have since reinstalled and all systems are
working ok. You can now close the bug out as it was all due to bad
manipulation on my part.

I should have thought of ls -l for the file details, still learning...

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:02 +0000, Micah Cowan wrote:
> You can get the size of a file with the command (in the terminal): "ls
> -l /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_dists_sarge_main_binary-
> i386_Packages".
>
> I strongly suspect the answer you'll end up getting, is that a
> sources.list file with debian repositories is not a supported
> configuration, and that we must therefore close this bug out; but I'm
> not comfortable saying that _just_ yet. However, you're probably right
> that a reinstall may be necessary: chances are pretty good that various
> packages have gotten a bit messed up.
>
> It still doesn't seem like you should get that sort of error from this
> sort of problem, though (which is why I haven't closed the bug out).
>