Bug#248258: apt: segfaults

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:23:13AM +0000, simon raven wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.25
> Severity: grave
> Tags: sid
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> 
> Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Release
> Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Sources
> Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Release
> Fetched 4317kB in 31s (139kB/s)
> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update: line 42:  3387 Segmentation fault      $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" update
> 
> update available list script returned error exit status 1.
> Press <enter> to continue.
> 
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mkdir /tmp/apt
mv /var/cache/apt/*.bin /tmp/apt

Then try apt-get update again.  If it works, send me /tmp/apt.  If it still
breaks, edit sources.list and remove sources until it works again, and send
me the last entry you removed.

If that doesn't get it working again, send me a gzipped copy of
/var/lib/dpkg/status.

-- 
 - mdz