Re: Bug#154223: apt: apt-get upgrade segfaults at apt-get.cc:361

[Frederic Briere <fbriere@abacom.com>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:07:25PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The only time I have heard of this happening consistantly is when you are
> using a filesystem such as XFS, or a buggy kernel which has been known to
> have bugs that systematically corrupt the APT cache files. 

ext2, plain vanilla 2.4.18.  Sorry. :)

> From what you describe this is the only possible conclusion.

I'm strongly inclined to believe this was a hardware problem or some
other glitch.  After I rebooted, everything worked fine; the Sources and
Packages in /var/lib/apt are exactly as before, but the caches in
/var/cache/apt are now different.  This looks much too irregular to be a
software problem, in my point of view.  Solar flares, maybe? :)

You can go ahead and close the bug.  Sorry for the interruption.


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    Frederic Briere     <fbriere@abacom.com>     [hyrule.dyndns.org]
        The second piece of paper was much easier to get.  Hmm.


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