Re: Problems with packages

[Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>]

> i recently upgraded to woody.
> During installation i get this error on ghostcript fonts:
> 
> Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.12.1) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postinst: line 12: 22181 Segmentation fault
> $currentcmd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/$dir
> 
> Any try to remove or reinstall it gives the same error...any suggestion to
> get rid of it

I didnt have a lot of time to look at this, but my feeling was it was
compiled with an older version of glibc and that makes it unhappy.

I found sid xmms was segving and a recompile fixed it.

Anton