Re: apt-error

[Chris Baker <baker@treyarch.com>]

Jim Ziegler <jcz@ziplink.net> writes:

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> I have a similar problem with mvme167.  Ftp'd slink boot disks, base, etc.
> Set up to use tftp from an i86 Debian system.  Boot went ok, install
> of boot disks and base system went ok.  Skipped dselect step.
> Did not update sources.list so they are as supplied on the base system.
> Did apt-get update, all ok.  Did apt-get upgrade, apt and dpkg were
> upgraded.  After which apt-get <update!install!upgrade> segfaults.

I might have had this same problem.  It segfaults building the package
list, IIRC.  I moved /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin to a backup file and
did a `apt-get update' again and it worked fine.

HTH,

cbb