Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

[Philipp Hübner <debalance@arcor.de>]

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Hey,

Anton Piatek schrieb:
> Does anyone know why apt-get crashes when updating?
> 
>   Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Sources
>   Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Sources
>   Hit http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Sources
>   Fetched 9B in 2s (4B/s)
>   Segmentation faultsts... 60%

Try removing
/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin

I also had this error sometimes, in my cases it solved the problem
deleting those files, since it causes apt to download all package
information fresh and new.

Regards,
Philipp

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