Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude
pobega@fuzzydev.org writes:
>> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
>>
>> I found I was able to run "apt-get -f install" twice and be able to
>> use aptitude to perform package maintenance again.
>>
>> However, now I'm finding that Emacs and Firefox (Iceweasel) die with
>> segmentation faults at random times. Wonder if I'll get this email
>> away...
>>
>> Has anyone seen these problems as a result of updating these packages?
>>
>>> Here's a trimmed excerpt from /var/log/aptitude:
>>>
>>> [...]
>
> I'm sorry if this is not useful, but it sounds to me like your problem is
> an anomaly. None of the packages installed/upgrades (besides perhaps
> libx11) should be affecting Emacs or Firefox. So the question is, if you
> try to reinstall the broken packages, do they work?
That's worth a shot, thanks. On the other hand, Emacs and Firefox were
still running this morning...
Weird.
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