On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Hi: >> >> This morning, I found my X screen frozen right after update manager >> had done its daily update. I was able to ctl-alt-bksp out of X. I >> ran aptitude from the command line, and it failed, reporting that >> method rred had segfaulted. This is more a heads up than anything; I >> guess I'll try again later. > > A google search when I got this message this morning said that the cause > was a corrupt diff file. You can temporarily run > > aptitude update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false > > to get the entire files instead of just the diffs.
Thanks - that appears to have worked - should have Googled myself! Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
