Error message in apt: Method ftp has died unexpectedly! - Tried to dequeue a fetching object

Hi !

        I got a error message in apt and I don't know how to fix it.

turquoise:~ # apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.2-i386 release [10.5kB]
Fetched 10.5kB in 14s (745B/s)
Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.2-i386/rpmkeys pkglist
Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.2-i386/rpmkeys release
....
...
881 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1126MB of archives.
After unpacking 3086kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly!
E: Tried to dequeue a fetching object
turquoise:~ #
turquoise:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i apt
apt-libs-0.5.15cnc6-rb.suse092.6
apt-0.5.15cnc6-rb.suse092.6
turquoise:~ #

        Thinks I already try to do:

1) remove apt, the related directories, and re-install
rpm -ev apt apt-libs
rm -rf /etc/apt /var/cache/apt /var/state/apt/ /usr/lib/apt
rpm -Uvh apt apt-libs

2) install a new sources.list file. I am using the one provide at 
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/examples/sources.list.FTP. 
I got the same error with the default sources.list provide with the package 
too.

3) using the same versions on another machine. I have another two others 
computer with the same base system (SuSe 9.2, same arch, same apt version) 
and on this machine there is no problems to fetch and install packages and 
run a dist-upgrade operation. So, I think this is a kink of curse on my 
machine only :(

I appreciate any comments, ideas, thoughts, deliriums, etc... on this subject.

PS: I am running the SuSe 9.2, kernel 2.6.8-24.11-default, kde 3.3.91 (beta1).



regards,