Hi, since a few days I cannot use apt-get to install/upgrade packages:
nas:~# apt-get update E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly! E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp did not start correctly E: Method ftp has died unexpectedly! E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp did not start correctly E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly nas:~# /usr/lib/apt/methods/http Segmentation fault (core dumped) The core dump is not very informative: nas:~# gdb /usr/lib/apt/methods/http core GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnueabi"... (no debugging symbols found) Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libgcc_s.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libutil.so.1... (no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libutil.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.3 Core was generated by `/usr/lib/apt/methods/http'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 21986] #0 0x40d01f78 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x40d01f78 in ?? () #1 0x401b6ebc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 Cannot access memory at address 0xd3ee4 I've tried checking apt and /usr/lib/apt/methods/http with strace with the funny result, that it works in this case: nas:~# strace /usr/lib/apt/methods/http execve("/usr/lib/apt/methods/http", ["/usr/lib/apt/methods/http"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0 ... write(1, "100 Capabilities\nVersion: 1.2\nPip"..., 64100 Capabilities Version: 1.2 Pipeline: true Send-Config: true ) = 64 fcntl64(0, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fcntl64(0, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0xa738, [TERM], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0xa738, [INT], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, NULL^C <unfinished ...> or with apt-get: nas:~# strace -f apt-get update 2>/dev/null Ign http://people.debian.org lenny Release.gpg Ign http://people.debian.org lenny/main Translation-en_US ... Fetched 2261B in 5s (449B/s) Reading package lists... Done I consider this a very special kind of humour. Is there anything I can do to solve this issue? Thanks Mathias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
