Bug#117719: marked as done (apt: crashes for no apparent reason)
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From: Ben Burton <benb@acm.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: apt: crashes for no apparent reason
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Hi. I'm finding apt-get, apt-cache, etc crash for no apparent reason.
root@espresso:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-cache stats
Segmentation fault
root@espresso:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
A copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/status which generates this problem can be
found at http://people.debian.org/~bab/bugs/status.breaks .
Here's the weird thing. Take the five lines describing
kernel-image-2.4.13-586 (lines 55710-55714) and move them to the very
bottom of the status file.
Then everything works perfectly.
root@espresso:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-cache stats
Total Package Names : 10322 (413k)
(etc etc)
I've put this up at http://people.debian.org/~bab/bugs/status.good .
I see nothing wrong with the kernel-image-2.4.13-586 lines. Also,
dpkg --status kernel-image-2.4.13-586 works perfectly with both the bad
and the good status file.
Ben.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux espresso 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Ben Burton <benb@acm.org>
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Subject: apt crash: HD screwed up
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 11:00:38 -0600
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Well, it seems my hard drive was in somewhat of a mess. A few runs of fsck
later and apt-* and dpkg-* are working fine.
Ben.
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