Re: (SOLVED)seg fault in apt-get after disk filled up
On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:13, David Goodenough wrote:
> 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
>
> > A
> >
> > > 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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Well I found the solution, clear /var/cache/apt/archives and run
apt-get update. So it would appear that something in there (and
those are all supposed to be text files, not binaries) can cause a
seg fault in apt-get while building it dependency tree - not good.
Unfortunately as the machine is so small I could not keep the files
so I do not have them to submit in a bug report.
David
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