Re: Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

[jb701@uku.co.uk]

Many thanks - I've tracked down the problem to two corrupted files - 
"available" and "status".  Copied across the "status-old" and 
"available-old" versions and it all seems to work OK. 

It seems as though the faulty memory caused this corruption [not surprisging 
I suppose] one way or another - maybe because it caused aptitude to crash. 
Never got as far as installing memtest, but have done so now so I'm ready 
for next time! 

Cheers 

- Joe 


Edward J. Shornock writes: 

> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:43:48PM +0100, jb701@uku.co.uk wrote:
> > Went OK until I got aptitude existing with a segmentation fault.  I 
> > rebooted, but I still get a segmentation fault. I tried to reinstall 
> > aptitude with apt-get [maybe that doesn't make sense!] and I get the 
> > message:  
> >
> > Segmentation faulty Tree 50% 
>
> That's actually "Segmentation Fault" on top of the text of "Buidling
> Dependency Tree" (not that clearing that up solves the problem :/). 
>
>
> > Can I save this installation or am I going to have to reinstall? 
>
> Possibly....what happens if you run "apt-get update".  If that fails,
> what is the output of "ldd /usr/bin/aptitude"? 
>
> > I have removed the suspect RAM of course. 
>
> Excellent.