On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:18:32AM +0000, David Corking <li...@dcorking.com> was heard to say: > Please suggest the next steps for troubleshooting an aptitude > installation that is crashing.
I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but... > 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. ...do you mean etch or lenny? If you really mean etch, then aptitude-dbg is not available. You'll have to run apt-get source to fetch the aptitude source and then compile it with debugging symbols. (./configure && make should do the trick, once you install the build-deps) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
