Bug#409230: Aptitude / apt-get causes segmentation faults
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Daniel Burrows dburrows-at-debian.org |Debian Bug| wrote:
> I can say pretty confidently that the problem is not in aptitude
> if apt-get also crashes (and if, as your backtraces show, the crash
> is in database code). I can't think of any reason offhand that this
> should happen, but I'll redirect you to the apt authors.
>
> Just to rule this out, have you tried running a memory tester on
> your laptop?
>
> Daniel
>
I kind of figured this was not a direct aptitude bug, but I didn't know
exactly where to file it, sorry.
The laptop managed to compile itself a kernel without crashing (this
took *at least* 24 hours, since it has only 32MB RAM and *everything* is
I/O bound because of the sloooow disk system). Is that a sufficiently
good memory test?
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