I hope it would be ok if I simply give a life to this elderly bugreport, since it might be the case, which was left unexplored (I see no track of question about permissions) I have prepared a simple live-cd using live-builder, and (yet to discover why), /var/lib/apt/lists has no rX permissions for anyone but root. So, apt-cache search, policy (may be more) simply segfaults in operation. ATM I have APT 0.8.8 on that live system. I guess it should be quite easy to reproduce ;) (re)Solution should result imho in a gracefull exit with a correct message about inability to read any of the lists or lock or whatever thanks in advance! -- =------------------------------------------------------------------= Keep in touch www.onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko www.ohloh.net/accounts/yarikoptic
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