apt segfaults, what now?

Daniel T. Chen crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
Sat Dec 9 03:14:26 UTC 2006


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Matt Price wrote:
> running edgy on a dell latitude d820 with a kernel from feisty (2.6.19).
> Everything's been running smooth as silk but today apt is segfaulting --
> that includes apt-cache, apt-get, synaptic...  dpkg
> -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xxx.deb DOES work so I assume the issue is
> somewhere in the level above dpkg.  any hints?

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin && sudo apt-get update

Thanks,
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Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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