Bug#54756: marked as done (apt: segmentation fault while accessing package lists)
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From: Adam Kumiszcza <qman@from.pl>
Subject: apt: segmentation fault while accessing package lists
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.15
Severity: critical
I keep receiving the following kind of errors while using apt:
# apt-get update
Get:1 ftp://ftp.fnet.pl potato/main Packages [846kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.pg.gda.pl potato/non-free Packages [79.3kB]
Get:3 ftp://ftp.pg.gda.pl potato/non-free Release [99B]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.fnet.pl potato/main Release [95B]
Get:5 ftp://ftp.fnet.pl potato/contrib Packages [35.9kB]
Get:6 ftp://ftp.fnet.pl potato/contrib Release [98B]
Fetched 961kB in 6m28s (2471B/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
This makes the system a bit unusable (unupgradeable ;)).
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux psycho 2.3.36 #1 Thu Jan 6 17:32:23 CET 2000 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-4 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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To: Adam Kumiszcza <qman@from.pl>, 54756-done@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: Re: Bug#54756: apt: segmentation fault while accessing package lists -- problem disappeared
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Adam Kumiszcza wrote:
> The problem disappeared after changing /etc/apt/sources.list so that
> all the package info is collected from only one server.
Oh this got lost, the answer to your problem before is that *somehow* you
had some file corruption of /var/cache/apt/* which can segfault APT. It is
not supposed to be possible to get that, so I'm not sure how you got so
lucky...
Changing the sources.list forced it to rebuild all the files and wipe out
the corruption, 'rm' does the same.
Jason
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