Re: Bug#81829: How to avoid the segfault in apt-get?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> > It seems #2 was the case but the next 'update' didn't fix it. I did a
> > 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
> > try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
>
> Uh.
>
> I did not say to do rm /var/cache/apt/archives. That cannot, and must not
> fix the problem that Wichert reported.
>
> For 'update' to fix it there must be something updated.

I was a bit unclear: I did a 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' followed by an
'update'. Before there was nothing new for 'update' but now there was. I
used perhaps an unusual way to update the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin ?

> Jason

cu,
Adrian

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