[Solved] Error on apt-get update

[Member dirkd]

What does this mean? And should I be worried?

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://files.eid.belgium.be/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease                     
Hit:3 http://files2.eid.belgium.be/debian stretch InRelease                    
Ign:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                   
Hit:5 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch InRelease       
Hit:6 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease                
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                     
Hit:8 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian testing InRelease                        
Hit:9 http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/testing testing InRelease               
Max. recursion depth with nested structures exceeded at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.28/Storable.pm line 278, at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 274.
Reading package lists... Done
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'test -x /usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions -i'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

These are my sources:

$ inxi -r
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
  1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/testing testing main nosystemd nonfree
  2: deb-src http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/testing testing main nosystemd nonfree
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
  1: deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
  2: deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eid.list 
  1: deb http://files.eid.belgium.be/debian stretch main
  2: deb http://files2.eid.belgium.be/debian stretch main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
  1: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib

The last one I added was the ‘eid’-one, managed by the belgian government, to support a chipcard reader plugin in firefox. But I’m not sure that triggered the problem.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by dirkd.

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Same issue, I think
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/pbm-with-apt-get-update/

[Member dirkd]

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Thanks a lot! Updated apt-show-versions.

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