Bug#200873: apt-get is unuseable, segmentation faults

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:18:40PM +0200, Markus Hubig wrote:
> | open("/etc/apt/preferences", O_RDONLY)  = 5
> | fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
> | brk(0)                                  = 0x8089000
> | brk(0x8091000)                          = 0x8091000
> | read(5, "Explanation: see http://www.argo";..., 32768) = 537
> | read(5, "", 32231)                      = 0
> | --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> | +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

What's in your /etc/apt/preferences ?
Have you tried removing any of the sources in your sources.list to try
to narrow down where this might occur?

Simon.

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