Bug#401263: apt-get busted -- again!

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Subject: Bug#401263: apt-get busted -- again!
From: Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest@caiway.nl>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:51:34 +0100
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Reply-to: Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest@caiway.nl>, 401263@bugs.debian.org
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I am getting upset now....

Apt-get is again segfaulting!

Yesterday I removed the *.bin files from /var/cache/apt. Then ranapt-get update, apt-get -V upgrade and apt-get clean.

Now I do apt-get update and it segfaults again!!!

Grmbl.

-- Jan Evert

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Follow-Ups:
- Bug#401263: apt-get busted -- again!
  - From: "Margarita Manterola" <margamanterola@gmail.com>

References:
- Bug#401263: rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin fixed it
  - From: Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest@caiway.nl>
- Bug#401263: apt segfaults when reading package lists
  - From: Jan Evert van Grootheest <j.e.van.grootheest@caiway.nl>