Apt / Cydia problem: failed in buffer_read

[Comedy]

Yesterday Cydia stopped installing any apps.. It would go to the install screen, go blank and then just show the 'Return to Cydia' button and nothing would be installed.

I tried via the command line to install sometheing through apt-get (just to see what the errors are) and I'm getting this:

dpkg: failed in buffer_read(fd): copy info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available': Device not configured


Has anyone seen this problem before?.. I know it's not Cydia specific but if anyone has had it I'd appreciate some pointers on how I can fix or should I head off to a debian support forum.


Thanks

Incase anyone's wondering this sorted it:

dpkg --clear-avail && apt-get update

Unlikely anyone's that bothered though considering how rare the problem is.

[llescaflownell]

i have the same problem, but i don't know how you fixed it, can you do a step by step solution? Thanks a lot.

[Comedy]

firstly you'll need to have mobileterminal installed or some way to ssh into your phone.

In the terminal type the following:

su
-password is alpine

dpkg --clear-avail

apt-get update

Then go back into Cydia and all should be good.


If you don't have MobileTerminal but you do have Installer I think you can still install it that way. If you get stuck or it doesn't work let me know what goes wrong and I'll try to think up something else.

[llescaflownell]

Thank you so much for the tip, however, I did what you said, and at the end, it states:

"Some index files failed to download, the have been ignored, or old ones used instead."

Is this okay?

[Comedy]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got the same message. Try Cydia again