Re: Segmentation faults with aptitude and apt-get on some packages
OK so new question...
Once I've done the reinstall from the archive should I do apt-get update
&& apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get dist-upgrade? Will it grab from
the newly built packages? Will it bork the newly installed system?
Rod
On 11/16/2016 2:12 PM, rod wrote:
> Thanks James. I did look at the buildd page and saw large number
> working on being rebuilt and thought it might be something like this.
>
> I will change the mirror and reload simple for quickness.
>
> I figured it was better to mention it...
>
> Rod
>
> On 11/16/2016 1:32 PM, James Clarke wrote:
>> 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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