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Could not set non-blocking flag

Looks like many people didn’t manage to solve this problem, so let’s feed google… If you notice the following error message when running apt-get:

# apt-get update
[…]
98% [Working]FATAL -> Could not set non-blocking flag Bad file descriptor
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
# echo $?
100

… you forgot to mount the according partition using the dev mount option. So fix it via running something like:

mount -o remount,dev /path/to/filesystem

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