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Re: Problem: update hell: apt-get gives segmentation fault consistently



On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:24:36AM -0000, Mungo Henning wrote:


> I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my linkstation box and I'm getting
> a dreaded crash in apt-get.

[...]

> ---------------------------
> Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# apt-get -y install module-init-tools
> Segmentation faultsts... 9%
> Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# ls -lt /var/cache/apt
> total 19800
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1000000001 Feb 22 15:41 pkgcache.bin
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      14336 Feb 22 09:39 archives
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   19169764 Aug 17  2007 available
> Buffalo400Gb:/tmp#
> Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Default-Release
> "stable";
> APT::Cache-Limit "1000000000";
> Buffalo400Gb:/tmp#
> ---------------------------

the file pkgcache.bin is 9991236 bytes on my system, yours is way too
big.

This is not a power-pc specific problem, try posting at debian-user,
they have a larger brain pool that might help to solve your problem,

Good luck,

-- 
Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net>
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