On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:55:43AM -0500, José Alburquerque wrote: > Hi list. I'm running into a little bit of a problem with package > management on my system and I was hoping someone out there might help: > > My problem occurs with apt-get, aptitude, dselect, synaptic or any other > front-end to apt. > > I can manually download packages and successfully install/upgrade them > using dpkg. In fact, I gave the 'smartpm' package manager a try and > found it to work successfully because it uses dpkg directly and not apt. > > My problem is as follows: When I run 'aptitude upgrade' or 'apt-get > upgrade' I get a segmentation fault when it tries to update the list of > packages (I guess that's what the message says, but it is overwritten > with "Segmentation fault"): > > [10:22][root@sweety:~]$ aptitude upgrade > Segmentation faultsts... 0% > [10:22][root@sweety:~]$ snipped various permutations of segfaults > > Unfortunately, I can't install any new packages with apt-get or aptitude > and cannot upgrade as I normally do with either of them. Anyone know > what might be going on or how I might fix this? I'd really appreciate > some help. Thanks so much in advanced. > what version of apt-get? check out bug 401263. Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of possible solutions posted. you may have to use dpkg to manually install an older(or newer) apt until it gets resolved. hth A
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