Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > > Recently, apt-get has started segfaulting on me every time I do an > > apt-get install. It will also often do it in the upgrade phase. This > > is, of course, quite frustrating. I'm using the 0.3.6 package. > > > > Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know a workaround or fix? > > Usually rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin fixes it.. Somehow the cache files got > corrupted which isn't supposed to be possible.. Do you know what you did > before this started? > Ahhh, that fixed it. I had actually thought of this before, but had only deleted (mv'ed, actually) pkgcache.bin, not srcpkgcache.bin (guess I thought it surely couldn't have much in the source package cache...).
As to what I did: I believe it started when I stupidly started an apt-get upgrade, then realized I didn't want to upgrade all that shit and CTRL/C'ed it while it was downloading the deb files. I bet it was updating the cache for the kernel source package when I killed it! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now what else is there around here I can break? <|:-b
