Bug#678225: libapt-pkg: Apt and related tools (apt-cache, aptitude, etc.) segfault on reading package lists
On 20 June 2012 11:04, Sohum Banerjea <sohumb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did this start happening after using aptitude or apt-get to update?
>
> I assume after apt-get update, as that's what's in my crontab.
> % sudo rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin*
> % sudo apt-get update
> <snip>
> Fetched 254 kB in 40s (6,327 B/s)
> % echo $?
> 139
How about after:
# cp -R /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists.bak
# rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
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