Re: apt-get segmentation fault

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

> Some time ago I started and aborted an upgrade of some packages via FTP. Now
> everytime I try to install or update the list of available packages I get a
> Segmentation Fault. "dpkg --yet-to-unpack" shows that there are 89 packages
> marked for installation (many more than the five or six I really want to
> install), so I guess this problem is being caused by some inconsistency in the
> packages database. If so, is there any way to correct it?
> 
> Until we meet again...
> 
> Hélio Perroni Filho
> 


Perhaps /var/lib/dpkg/{available,status} are corrupted and you need to 
use the -old version?
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