On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and > > loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs. > > I then used apt-cdrom to add them all to /etc/apt/sources.list, and > > ran apt-get update. It gets 64% of the way through Reading Package > > Lists and then segfaults. > > > > This is of course the slink version of apt, 0.3.11. > > The CD-ROM entries in sources.list are the only ones there. > > As a wild guess I tried the cache-limit cure for "dynamic mmap ran out > > of room" on the theory that maybe an older version of apt didn't give > > such a useful error message. It made no difference; varying the limit > > didn't affect the 64%. > > > > I have also tried dselect, but its multi-cd access method doesn't seem > > to work; it only lets me tell it about one CD at a time. > > > > Any ideas on how to get either of these methods working? Since the C > > libraries will be upgraded I have no desire to upgrade by hand! > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software > in one step.
Would I not then need a set of Potato CDs? (Doing it over dialup is not an option...) But I can't upgrade to anything if apt-get update is gonna segfault on me! Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
