Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:06:18 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 14:19:42 -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I've dist-upgraded my Sid machine not 5 minutes ago. It had 0.8.15.1 for
> apt. Segfaulting and pinning is mentioned in the changelog. If your
> version is earlier . . . .
I can't find, at the moment, what you're referring to, but I did just
find the cause of my headache: a preferences file containing pins. This
had been sitting there for months (at least), and causing no trouble at
all, but moving it away makes everything work again. The file had this:
Package: *
#Pin: origin localhost:9999/multimedia
Pin: origin www.debian-multimedia.org
Pin-Priority: 200
Package: *
#Pin: origin localhost:9999/debian
Pin: origin localhost
Pin-Priority: 600
I still have no idea what's going on here, but at least my package
management is currently functional. Thanks for the help.
Celejar
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