Re: Segmentation fault

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

aadamson@proactivenetworx.com wrote:
> I installed a copy of debian from the netinstall cd about 2 weeks ago. the
> installation works fine but once I get the base system on and try to do
> any apt-get commands every packet I try to download gives the error
> "segmentation fault" and then goes back to prompt. I've tried many
> different sources for the packets and every source I try to use ends up
> with the same error.
>
> Aaron Adamson

If possible, try different memory modules.  For some reason, dpkg seems
particularly sensitive to memory errors.

I once got repeated segfaults and perl warnings due to memory errors,
when almost no other test (including memtest) was able to detect the failures.