On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:42:59AM +0000, P.Saffrey wrote: > I am running debian testing on my home firewall/putative print server. > Running a fairly routine apt command to download gs-common, my > installation of dpkg has become rather unhappy. A forest of > segmentation faults greets me when I try and run apt-get -f install or > apt-get remove on gs-common. I can manually dpkg -r gs-common but that > does not improve apt's opinion on the matter, or indeed eventually allow > me to properly install gs-common. > > The problem comes from the update-alternatives command, which gives an > instant segmentation fault when run from the command line. I've tried > doing a straight replace from a working Debian installation to no effect > so there's obviously something more profound that's wrong. Does anybody > have any experience with reinstalling dpkg from scratch without having to > reinstall the whole OS? All the other stuff (ppp, samba, iptables and so > on) seems to be working fine. I've tried replacing from a .deb but that > hasn't helped. I have no specific ideas at all on this, other than to note that update-alternatives is a perl script. Is your perl installation borked? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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