Please suggest the next steps for troubleshooting an aptitude installation that is crashing.
When I try to use it interactively I get: # aptitude Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying.. Segmentation fault For non-interactive use, I get: # aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Segmentation fault Would you suggest a particular stack trace or core file for analysis? Otherwise, is there a way to clear aptitude's package database and construct a new one? As far as I can tell, the trouble began when an 'upgrade' put 4.0 packages into a 3.1 installation. However the server is now fully upgraded to 4.0 (etch) and the only problem with it now is aptitude . The server is a UML (user mode Linux) instance. I can fall back to using apt-get, (which still works as far as I can tell) but of course I don't then get aptitude's features like automatic package removal. Best, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
