I've had this exact same problem in Debian Sparc. apt segfaults whenever an update is ran. I have not recieved any replies to my problem, and have not been able to reproduce the results on any other (non-Sparc) Debian box, of which I have many.
I originally thought the problem was a memory-related one. The machine that I'm trying to get it working on is an old Sparcstation IPC, with only 12 megs of physical memory. Increasing the swap size has not helped, and swapping out the RAM with other memory has also has not changed things. Being as I have no 4 meg 30-pin memory, I cannot try to increase the memory size of this machine; however memory starving a Debian x86 machine to 12 megs does not duplicate the problem. Other Debian tools infrequently fail with bus errors, but this has not been reproducable. All other tools on the system work perfectly. In fact, the system has remained up for four days straight, with some reasonably heavy load (compiling a kernel takes _forever_ on an IPC with no memory), so I can just about guarantee that there isn't a hardware problem. This machine also ran Sloaris perfectly (but was a dog) before being Linux-ized. Hopefully, somebody can shed light to this problem. -Chris On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: > Hi! > > Apt segfaults before it's finished. I can install packages, but I'm not > sure if apt update the package database. Not all packages are > up-to-date, maybe there is a conflict with an old package, but I don't > want to install new packages when apt segfaults. > > Oliver > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
