Re: Bug#50530: apt-get crashes when installing many packages...
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Unfortunately, apt-get crashes every 5-15 (or so) packages
> while unpacking the packages:
> Errors were encountered whie processing:
> [package path]
> E: Sub-process returned an error code(1)
> Sometimes even a segfault.
This a problem with dpkg and/or the package scripts - or possibly your
machine (depending on why the package scripts fail). Defaintely what you
describe sounds extreme and would suggest some massive
misconfiguration/hardware problem. But not an APT bug.
Jason
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