Re: Segfault on apt-get (sarge)
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Ken Treis wrote:
> I just upgraded one of my briQ-based servers to the latest from sarge,
> and now I get segmentation faults when apt reads package lists:
>
> # apt-get update
> [various sites hit]
> Fetched 7066B in 0s (7482B/s)
> Segmentation faultsts... 1%
>
> # apt-cache update
> Segmentation fault
>
> The update that caused these problems to begin brought in the following
> packages:
>
> base-config base-files console-common debconf debconf-i18n diff
> findutils iptables libc6 login modutils nano passwd ppp procps proftpd
> proftpd-common proftpd-doc pump wget wwwconfig-common
>
> I don't know which of these would have caused the issue, but my reading
> of changelogs and searches of the bug tracking system haven't brought up
> anything useful.
>
> I can still get files onto the system, and I can still install them with
> `dpkg -i`, so I'm confident that I can recover from this situation ...
> but only if I can figure out which package is to blame.
Usually libc6 is too blame. If you still have the old one in
/var/cache/apt/archives/ (or can get it on the box) just reinstall it manually.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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