Re: Bug#93453: segfaults after caculating dependancy tree.

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> writes:

    Jason> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Brian May wrote:

    >> Possibly something is currupt on this root directory, but I
    >> don't know what (everything looks OK to me), and even if that
    >> is the case, apt-get should not segfault.

    Jason> Well, you corrupted it's cache file, which it mmap's, and
    Jason> directly manipulates in evil ways. The only way that
    Jason> happens has been due to faulty kernels, bad hardware,
    Jason> reboots in the middle of disk IO.. that kind of fun
    Jason> stuff. Though I think 0.5.0 had a small glitch which could
    Jason> possibly cause this in more mundane situations.

    Jason> rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin

    Jason> If that does not work I need a tar of /etc/apt
    Jason> /var/lib/apt/* and /var/lib/dpkg/status

Much better:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages have been kept back
  apt apt-utils dpkg gnucash gsnes9x heimdal-clients heimdal-clients-x
  heimdal-dev heimdal-lib heimdal-servers heimdal-servers-x libpam-heimdal
  sawfish sawfish-gnome 
47 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14  not upgraded.
Need to get 27.7MB of archives. After unpacking 33.1MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

Thanks!

hmmm... not sure what could have caused it though... Perhaps when I
was running apt without enough RAM and had the swap file disabled (at
least that is the only thing that comes to mind). I think I had a bit
of fun then with processes dying unexpectedly.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>