Many thanks - I've tracked down the problem to two corrupted files -
"available" and "status". Copied across the "status-old" and
"available-old" versions and it all seems to work OK.
It seems as though the faulty memory caused this corruption [not surprisging
I suppose] one way or another - maybe because it caused aptitude to crash.
Never got as far as installing memtest, but have done so now so I'm ready
for next time!
Cheers
- Joe
Edward J. Shornock writes:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:43:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Went OK until I got aptitude existing with a segmentation fault. I
rebooted, but I still get a segmentation fault. I tried to reinstall
aptitude with apt-get [maybe that doesn't make sense!] and I get the
message:
Segmentation faulty Tree 50%
That's actually "Segmentation Fault" on top of the text of "Buidling
Dependency Tree" (not that clearing that up solves the problem :/).
Can I save this installation or am I going to have to reinstall?
Possibly....what happens if you run "apt-get update". If that fails,
what is the output of "ldd /usr/bin/aptitude"?
I have removed the suspect RAM of course.
Excellent.
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