Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:09:55 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 08:40:32 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > I've tried (repeatedly) deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin, but it doesn't
> > help, nor does anything else I try.
> 
> Did you try replacing /var/lib/dpkg/available and/or /var/lib/dpkg/status
> with the -old copies?

Thanks for the suggestion; I just tried - no luck. I'll add here that
apt-cache search some_package also segfaults, at least some of the time.

Celejar
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