Frederick: If it's any consolation, I have been getting the same errors. I have 70Mb in uninstalled upgrades because of this.
I have ftp'd xterm, apt, and debconf to re-install to no avail. Maybe we have to await someone more knowledgeable? Eric Wolven On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:16:33 +0100 (CET) Frederik Vanrenterghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading to dpkg 1.7.1, I have experienced several problems with > apt-get dist-upgrade. A few times, I had to manually install and deinstall > the downloaded packages, 'cause apt-get wasn't able to pull it off. > Today, I get this error message: > Fetched 14.5MB in 3m40s (65.8kB/s) > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt recieved a segmentation > fault. > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > After this, I just reran apt-get dist-upgrade, and after deinstalling > sawfish and sawfish-gnome and helix-sweetpill, this happened: > > /home/wichert/sources/cvs/debian/x/dpkg-1.7.1/lib/dump.c:160: internal > error `unknown verrel' > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly > > I don't know if this information can help some debugging, just thought I'd > share it (I don't mind these bugs that much, it's not a mission critical > box anyway) > > -- > > Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. > But she can never catch him at it. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > --
