I recently upgraded to apt_0.0.16-1
Things seemed to be going fine till today. Today I noticed that apt-get,
dpkg and dselect all dump core -
* apt-get
apt-get update works fine
apt-get upgrade dumps core. The packages get downloaded fine to
/var/cache/apt/archives/
* dselect
'Access' (set to ftp) and 'Upgrade' work fine. When I chosoe 'Select' in
the dselect menu there is a core dump. If I move to 'Install' without
select (I know there are about 7 packages to be upgraded), the packages get
downloaded fine. The install of the downloaded packages fails.
* dpkg
dpkg --install, dpkg --remove and dpkg --list all dump core. Doing an
strace shows that dpkg dumps core after opening /var/lib/dpkg/stats and
beginning to read from it.
I strongly suspect that my status file has been messed up. Unfortunately, I
cannot move to the slightly older status file because it has some rather old
info (I checked). I even tried using the slightly older status file. Same
result. core dump when beginning to read from the status file.
Here are my questions -
* Is there a way to regenerate the status file? Shouldn't there be a way?
* What should one do if all avenues of upgrading dump core? I am not averse
to manual edits of files.
I know that this is precisely the reason why hamm is frozen and that apt is
in projects/experimental. I know that this is to be expected when I play
around with software that is still in development. Only I am to blame for
the state of my machine. I was fully aware of such things happening when I
decided to play around with apt.
S.
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