On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 05:03:28PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > I have a small machine that I keep completely up to date. It ran out of > > disk space in the middle of an update and now every time it tries to > > you mean completely out of disk space? or just your /var partition? > maybe apt-get clean or auto-clean might be in order? There is only one partition, and it ran out of space completely (its only 4GB). apt-get autoclean segfaults just like the rest of apt-get.
I have now cleared some space. David > > A > > > build its dependancy tree it gets to about 50% and then seg faults. > > > > It is running package apt 0.6.45. > > > > I have copied the old available and status files in /var/lib/dpkg over > > the current version, and that has not fixed the problem. > > > > Short of a reinstall, any idea how to proceed? > > > > David > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]