Re: Segmentation faults with aptitude and apt-get on some packages
Hi Rod,
> On 16 Nov 2016, at 17:13, rod <r.schnell@mythos.freeddns.org> wrote:
>
> I followed the guide you wrote (after dumping debian for solaris to
> reset the sc> password). It works well as written, covering all the
> issues that came up.
>
> The current problem I'm having is this:
>
> root@mw-monitor:/home/rod# aptitude
> Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying..
> Segmentation fault
>
> or
>
> root@mw-monitor:/home/rod# apt-get install gunzip
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> ESegmentation fault
>
> with this on the console:
>
> [ 1656.976655] apt-get[545]: segfault at fff0000200794008 ip
> fff0000100015994 (rpc fff0000100015970) sp 000007feffa705b1 error 30001
> in ld-2.24.so[fff0000100000000+22000]
>
> Any ideas?
We’ve had to rebuild ~1700 packages built in the last couple of weeks,
since they were built with a broken binutils. My guess is that aptitude
was broken by this (it’s one of the packages built during that time
period). I am however surprised that apt-get is segfaulting; that was
built well before any of this mess. If I run that command I get this:
# apt-get install gunzip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gunzip
That’s with the latest version (1.3.1). FYI, there is no gunzip package;
it’s included in gzip.
If you want to get a working system set up now, I suggest you reinstall
with your mirror configured to a snapshot taken before 2nd November using
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/, as it’s going to be a
few days before everything has finished building. Unfortunately we weren’t
aware of the problem and how widespread it was when you were installing.
Regards,
James
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