Package: apt Version: 0.6.44.1 Severity: grave Description: i think this says it all...
(making sure previously downloaded packages are not the problem:) moose:/home/coutal# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/apt/lists/partial': Is a directory moose:/home/coutal# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*': No such file or directory moose:/home/coutal# apt-get update Get:1 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable Release [38.3kB] Get:3 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/main Packages [3121kB] Get:4 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/contrib Packages [49.1kB] Get:5 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/non-free Packages [65.3kB] Fetched 3274kB in 48s (68.1kB/s) Segmentation faultsts... 0% moose:/home/coutal# from now on, every operation attempted causes a segmentation fault as well. sources.list: deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free the rest of the apt configuration files have not been touched from their defaults. i have checked that the packages file was intact - the md5 signature matched the Release file, and the Release file was properly signed. uname: Linux moose 2.6.16-1-k7 #2 Thu May 4 18:35:10 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.