Re: seg fault in apt-get after disk filled up

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 05:03:28PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > I have a small machine that I keep completely up to date.  It ran out of
> > disk space in the middle of an update and now every time it tries to
>
> you mean completely out of disk space? or just your /var partition?
> maybe apt-get clean or auto-clean might be in order?
There is only one partition, and it ran out of space completely (its
only 4GB).  apt-get autoclean segfaults just like the rest of apt-get.

I have now cleared some space.

David
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> A
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> > build its dependancy tree it gets to about 50% and then seg faults.
> >
> > It is running package apt 0.6.45.
> >
> > I have copied the old available and status files in /var/lib/dpkg over
> > the current version, and that has not fixed the problem.
> >
> > Short of a reinstall, any idea how to proceed?
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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