Re: 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).

I just got into the same trouble (tried to upgrade a DVD installed SuSE 
9.2 box to the latest versions via ftp). Same error message.

I temporarily fixed it by manually installing some of the packages 
(apt-get install <lots-of-packages>) and then trying to do "apt-get 
-u upgrade" from time to time. And at a certain point it worked.

I guess there's some memory limit involved, perhaps someone familiar
with the code could have a look?

 > regards,

Regards,
  Marcel