fam segfaults
Hello,
I recently tried installing gnome on a (sarge) machine at my lab. All
was well until it tried to set-up fam.
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Setting up fam (2.7.0-5) ...
Starting file alteration monitor: /etc/init.d/fam: line 40: 25206 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- $FAMOPTS
invoke-rc.d: initscript fam, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing fam (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
[...cut...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
fam
gnome-desktop-environment
gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
fam segfaulted. I tried /usr/sbin/famd from the command line. It
segfaulted. I tried
removing/var/cache/apt/archives/fam_2.7.0-5_i386.deb and reinstalling.
It still segfaulted.
What's strange is that a number of other (sarge) machines haven't had
any trouble with fam. I checked all the packages that fam depends:
versions on the machine where fam crashes are the same as on a machine
where I haven't seen the fam problems. I ran 'ldd' on /usr/sbin/famd
on both machines: same library dependencies. I checked the libraries:
all existed on both machines and all sizes (after resoling symb links)
are identical.
Any idea what could be causing the problem? Is there anything else I
should investigate?
Many thanks,
Jason
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