On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:26:44PM -0400, Marty wrote: > 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. > Although memtest did not work out for you, I have had ut successfully detect faulty memory for me. You may want to boot a Knoppix CD and run memtest from it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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