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Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"



On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, paul wrote:

> It'd be nice to know what caused it.  I'm leaning to hardware problems,
> as I noticed in my journals that I had some rather funny filesystem and
> data coruption problems with a similar motherboard (MVP3) and this same
> HD (Quantum 6.4 gig) last year when the HD was using 32 bit mode.  I

It is entirely possible that if your hardware corrupted one of those two
files that this would happen. They are loaded without any sort of error
checking (far too expensive) via mmap.

Someday I might arrange to have them auto-erased on segfault. like that.

Jason


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