[geeks] Debian gurus?

[Joshua D Boyd]

Any Debian guru's here?  I'm starting to have some really major problems
with debian's package management system, and I really want to fix it
rather than reinstall linux.

See the text after my .sig.  I can't seem to find anyway to flush the
bad data and regenerate it.  Might the problem be the list of installed
packages is corrupt?  I'm clueless about how to fix this.

Using the -f option gives me the same error.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

root at ecstacy:~# apt-get update
Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages      
Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Release       
Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.