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[fog;~]-1# apt-get install ntp
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) apt-get install ntp
[fog;~]-2# gdb /usr/bin/apt-get core
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(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `apt-get install ntp'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0 0x4006a8af in pkgDepCache::Init () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
(gdb) bt
#0 0x4006a8af in pkgDepCache::Init () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
#1 0x4006a405 in pkgDepCache::pkgDepCache () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
#2 0x400a3299 in pkgCacheFile::Open () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
#3 0x805483c in strcpy ()
#4 0x40053cea in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
#5 0x805e0fc in strcpy ()
#6 0x4014cdbc in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux fog 2.2.18ext3 #1 Tue Dec 26 01:06:30 CET 2000 i686
Versions of packages apt depends on:
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[fog;~]-1# apt-get install ntp
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) apt-get install ntp
[fog;~]-2# gdb /usr/bin/apt-get core
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Core was generated by `apt-get install ntp'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7...
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Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
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Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0 0x4006a8af in pkgDepCache::Init () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
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#1 0x4006a405 in pkgDepCache::pkgDepCache () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
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#3 0x805483c in strcpy ()
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#5 0x805e0fc in strcpy ()
#6 0x4014cdbc in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
-- System Information
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problem with every call to "apt-get" and I'm wondering why you assume it
isn't "grave" that "apt-get" is completely broken for me.
cu,
Adrian
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Hi Anthony,
I see you have downgraded this bug reported by Wichert from "grave" to
"normal". Is there a specific reason for this downgrade? I have the same
problem with every call to "apt-get" and I'm wondering why you assume it
isn't "grave" that "apt-get" is completely broken for me.
cu,
Adrian
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I see you have downgraded this bug reported by Wichert from "grave" to
> "normal". Is there a specific reason for this downgrade? I have the same
> problem with every call to "apt-get" and I'm wondering why you assume it
> isn't "grave" that "apt-get" is completely broken for me.
grave bugs mean a package is unusable for everyone, and that it thus
won't be a loss to anyone if the package is removed. apt works fine for
me, so that's obviously not the case.
A segfault on its own that doesn't reoccur is just a normal bug, and that's
all there was any evidence of that I saw. If it's reoccuring and happens
no matter what, that ups it to important, but not grave.
Cheers,
aj
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I see you have downgraded this bug reported by Wichert from "grave" to
> "normal". Is there a specific reason for this downgrade? I have the same
> problem with every call to "apt-get" and I'm wondering why you assume it
> isn't "grave" that "apt-get" is completely broken for me.
grave bugs mean a package is unusable for everyone, and that it thus
won't be a loss to anyone if the package is removed. apt works fine for
me, so that's obviously not the case.
A segfault on its own that doesn't reoccur is just a normal bug, and that's
all there was any evidence of that I saw. If it's reoccuring and happens
no matter what, that ups it to important, but not grave.
Cheers,
aj
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I see you have downgraded this bug reported by Wichert from "grave" to
> "normal". Is there a specific reason for this downgrade? I have the same
> problem with every call to "apt-get" and I'm wondering why you assume it
> isn't "grave" that "apt-get" is completely broken for me.
Their are only 2 known cases where this happens:
1) Your libc/libstdc++ is screwed
2) Your system has corrupted the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin
In #1 you have to fix it, in #2 it usually fixes itself next 'update', but
if that is not the case 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' always fixes it.
Nobody has been able to show that these are actual APT bugs, the reason I
have not closed the reports is because I would like it to handle #2 more
elegantly and make a better error message.
Jason
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I see you have downgraded this bug reported by Wichert from "grave" to
> "normal". Is there a specific reason for this downgrade? I have the same
> problem with every call to "apt-get" and I'm wondering why you assume it
> isn't "grave" that "apt-get" is completely broken for me.
Their are only 2 known cases where this happens:
1) Your libc/libstdc++ is screwed
2) Your system has corrupted the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin
In #1 you have to fix it, in #2 it usually fixes itself next 'update', but
if that is not the case 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' always fixes it.
Nobody has been able to show that these are actual APT bugs, the reason I
have not closed the reports is because I would like it to handle #2 more
elegantly and make a better error message.
Jason
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Their are only 2 known cases where this happens:
> 1) Your libc/libstdc++ is screwed
> 2) Your system has corrupted the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin
>
> In #1 you have to fix it, in #2 it usually fixes itself next 'update', but
> if that is not the case 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' always fixes it.
It seems #2 was the case but the next 'update' didn't fix it. I did a
'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
> Nobody has been able to show that these are actual APT bugs, the reason I
> have not closed the reports is because I would like it to handle #2 more
> elegantly and make a better error message.
That would be good because I can't remember doing anything wrong before
and it took me some time to find the right solution. An advisory which
files to delete would have saved me some time (and a segmentation fault is
a bad error handling of a program so I would call it a bug).
> Jason
cu,
Adrian
--
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sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Their are only 2 known cases where this happens:
> 1) Your libc/libstdc++ is screwed
> 2) Your system has corrupted the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin
>
> In #1 you have to fix it, in #2 it usually fixes itself next 'update', but
> if that is not the case 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' always fixes it.
It seems #2 was the case but the next 'update' didn't fix it. I did a
'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
> Nobody has been able to show that these are actual APT bugs, the reason I
> have not closed the reports is because I would like it to handle #2 more
> elegantly and make a better error message.
That would be good because I can't remember doing anything wrong before
and it took me some time to find the right solution. An advisory which
files to delete would have saved me some time (and a segmentation fault is
a bad error handling of a program so I would call it a bug).
> Jason
cu,
Adrian
--
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> It seems #2 was the case but the next 'update' didn't fix it. I did a
> 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
> try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
Uh.
I did not say to do rm /var/cache/apt/archives. That cannot, and must not
fix the problem that Wichert reported.
For 'update' to fix it there must be something updated.
Jason
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> 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
> try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
Uh.
I did not say to do rm /var/cache/apt/archives. That cannot, and must not
fix the problem that Wichert reported.
For 'update' to fix it there must be something updated.
Jason
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> > It seems #2 was the case but the next 'update' didn't fix it. I did a
> > 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
> > try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
>
> Uh.
>
> I did not say to do rm /var/cache/apt/archives. That cannot, and must not
> fix the problem that Wichert reported.
>
> For 'update' to fix it there must be something updated.
I was a bit unclear: I did a 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' followed by an
'update'. Before there was nothing new for 'update' but now there was. I
used perhaps an unusual way to update the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin ?
> Jason
cu,
Adrian
--
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> > 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't
> > try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin').
>
> Uh.
>
> I did not say to do rm /var/cache/apt/archives. That cannot, and must not
> fix the problem that Wichert reported.
>
> For 'update' to fix it there must be something updated.
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used perhaps an unusual way to update the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin ?
> Jason
cu,
Adrian
--
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The 'now there was' is just due to usual Package file updation.
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merge 200102 197840
severity 195014 minor
merge 195014 79277
retitle 81829 apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 97924 apt-get segfaults with a long sources.list
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retitle 81829 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 93453 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 98017 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 165448 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 166306 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 171248 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 173616 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 177604 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 177871 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
retitle 186366 [libapt-pkg] apt-get segfaults on corrupt /var/cache/apt/*.bin
severity 192228 normal
merge 92193 192228
retitle 92193 [dpkgpm] infinite loop reading stdin
retitle 197828 [dpkgpm] apt: uses all of cpu waiting for disk
retitle 192228 [dpkgpm] infinite loop reading stdin
retitle 119509 [apt-get] install and update should be mutually exclusive
retitle 194467 [apt-get] install and update should be mutually exclusive
retitle 137433 [policy] apt: -t option fails to give warning when ignoring you
retitle 137560 [apt-get] build-dep does not remove conflicting packages to satisfy dependencies (should it?)
retitle 152711 [methods/http] apt has problems with chunked encoding or publicfile?
retitle 172339 [dpkgpm] apt feeds packages with circular deps to dpkg problematically
retitle 22550 [dpkgpm] apt-get upgrade could configure packages earlier
retitle 190558 [dpkgpm] many packages may be unconfigured after apt-get
retitle 174945 [tagfile] apt: installing package with lots of conffiles breaks apt (field larger than 32k)
retitle 175034 [methods/ftp] apt/dpkg ipv6 ftp problem (EPTR)
retitle 177952 [policy] apt-get dist-upgrade with Pin-Priority of woody>sarge replaces woody's *utils with sarge's coreutils
retitle 191309 [methods/http] apt: non-blocking error with http method on nfs root
retitle 198730 [methods/cdrom] cdroms.list created by 0.3.19 not recognized/converted properly
retitle 200953 [i18n] apt-get questions are broken on ru_RU.KOI8-R locale
severity 202493 minor
retitle 202493 [apt-cache] apt-cache show prints nothing and exits successfully
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:35:17PM -0700, Steven Hazel wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Try "rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin".
>
> This worked. Thanks!
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:24:49PM +0200, Jens Thiele (karme) wrote:
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing netstd (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> Program exited with code 0144.
This is #166758, which is long fixed.
> and both:
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> give me a segfault:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x400a2270 in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
This looks like #81829. Delete /var/cache/apt/*.bin and re-run apt-get
update to verify.
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:09:32PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Now for the second time, apt-get dies with
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Speicherzugriffsfehleree... 78%
>
> irregardless of the command issued (e.g. dist-upgrade, clean, ..).
> (Sorry, I tried changing the german error message to C, but failed,
> even and env LC_MESSAGES=C did not help, it means "memory acess
> error").
Please check the bug tracking system before filing new bugs; this bug has
already been reported many times.
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I was running an update of my debian/sarge box today, and encountered
the following error message at the [I]nstall step in dselect.
Reading Package Lists... Done
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install: line 57: 15737 Segmentation fault
$APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" dselect-upgrade
I searched for the error message on google groups, and found a few
complaints about it, but most had no reply at all, and the few that did
have replies were totally unhelpful. I did find Debian bug 196070 which
was marked fixed in July of last year with no useful information posted
in the bug report, other than the clarification that the crash was being
caused by apt, not by dselect. So I cut dselect out of the loop, and
tried apt-get from the command-line.
[root:~]apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
The "Segmentation Fault" error was being drawn over the top of the last
line of text. "apt-get clean" did nothing, and "apt-get check"
segfaulted the same way as "apt-get upgrade". "apt-get update" seemed to
download the package lists just fine, but then "apt-get upgrade" would
still crash.
But the error message "Segmentation faulty" was cute, and more clear and
concise than the error I was getting by way of dselect, so I searched
google groups for "Segmentation faulty" and that got some more useful
posts. One suggested deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin
[root:~]ls -l /var/cache/apt/*.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4973681 Apr 7 15:55
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882303 Apr 7 15:08
/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
[root:~]mkdir bak
[root:~]mkdir bak/var
[root:~]mkdir bak/var/cache
[root:~]mkdir bak/var/cache/apt
[root:~]mkdir bak/var/cache/apt/bin
[root:~]mv /var/cache/apt/*.bin ~/bak/var/cache/apt/bin
And after that, everything was happy again. I was able to run "apt-cache
update" and then "apt-cache upgrade" and everything worked.
Afterwards, knowing the problem, a search of the debian bug archives
turned up Bug 81829 and many duplicates. I read all the duplicates, and
they were all the same story. Somebody reports segfaults in apt-get. A
developer is unable to reproduce the error, and suggests to the
reporter, "hey, I'll bet your apt cache got corrupted somehow" and
advises the reporter to run "rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin" ... Only one
reporter bothered to save the corrupt bin files, and then he deleted
them before anybody asked for them. But I still have mine, and can
consistenly reproduce the segmentation fault on demand:
[root:~]cp -p ~/bak/var/cache/apt/*.bin /var/cache/apt/
[root:~]ls -l /var/cache/apt/
total 9660
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Apr 7 16:12 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4973681 Apr 7 15:55 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882303 Apr 7 15:08 srcpkgcache.bin
[root:~]apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 65%
So. Anybody want my corrupt /var/cache/apt/.bin files? I am eager to do
whatever I can to assist in resolving this lil' bug once and for all.
---
James Paige
Acknowledgement sent to Bob the Hamster <Bob@HamsterRepublic.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>.
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I was running an update of my debian/sarge box today, and encountered
the following error message at the [I]nstall step in dselect.
Reading Package Lists... Done
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install: line 57: 15737 Segmentation fault
$APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" dselect-upgrade
I searched for the error message on google groups, and found a few
complaints about it, but most had no reply at all, and the few that did
have replies were totally unhelpful. I did find Debian bug 196070 which
was marked fixed in July of last year with no useful information posted
in the bug report, other than the clarification that the crash was being
caused by apt, not by dselect. So I cut dselect out of the loop, and
tried apt-get from the command-line.
[root:~]apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
The "Segmentation Fault" error was being drawn over the top of the last
line of text. "apt-get clean" did nothing, and "apt-get check"
segfaulted the same way as "apt-get upgrade". "apt-get update" seemed to
download the package lists just fine, but then "apt-get upgrade" would
still crash.
But the error message "Segmentation faulty" was cute, and more clear and
concise than the error I was getting by way of dselect, so I searched
google groups for "Segmentation faulty" and that got some more useful
posts. One suggested deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin
[root:~]ls -l /var/cache/apt/*.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4973681 Apr 7 15:55
/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882303 Apr 7 15:08
/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
[root:~]mkdir bak
[root:~]mkdir bak/var
[root:~]mkdir bak/var/cache
[root:~]mkdir bak/var/cache/apt
[root:~]mkdir bak/var/cache/apt/bin
[root:~]mv /var/cache/apt/*.bin ~/bak/var/cache/apt/bin
And after that, everything was happy again. I was able to run "apt-cache
update" and then "apt-cache upgrade" and everything worked.
Afterwards, knowing the problem, a search of the debian bug archives
turned up Bug 81829 and many duplicates. I read all the duplicates, and
they were all the same story. Somebody reports segfaults in apt-get. A
developer is unable to reproduce the error, and suggests to the
reporter, "hey, I'll bet your apt cache got corrupted somehow" and
advises the reporter to run "rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin" ... Only one
reporter bothered to save the corrupt bin files, and then he deleted
them before anybody asked for them. But I still have mine, and can
consistenly reproduce the segmentation fault on demand:
[root:~]cp -p ~/bak/var/cache/apt/*.bin /var/cache/apt/
[root:~]ls -l /var/cache/apt/
total 9660
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Apr 7 16:12 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4973681 Apr 7 15:55 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882303 Apr 7 15:08 srcpkgcache.bin
[root:~]apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 65%
So. Anybody want my corrupt /var/cache/apt/.bin files? I am eager to do
whatever I can to assist in resolving this lil' bug once and for all.
---
James Paige
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:49:54AM -0700, Bob the Hamster wrote:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882303 Apr 7 15:08 srcpkgcache.bin
> [root:~]apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Segmentation faulty Tree... 65%
>
> So. Anybody want my corrupt /var/cache/apt/.bin files? I am eager to do
> whatever I can to assist in resolving this lil' bug once and for all.
What filesystem are you using? This corruption is not believed to be apt's
fault presently.
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:49:54AM -0700, Bob the Hamster wrote:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882303 Apr 7 15:08 srcpkgcache.bin
> [root:~]apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Segmentation faulty Tree... 65%
>
> So. Anybody want my corrupt /var/cache/apt/.bin files? I am eager to do
> whatever I can to assist in resolving this lil' bug once and for all.
What filesystem are you using? This corruption is not believed to be apt's
fault presently.
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