This is really ugly - aptitude has begun to consistently segfault on startup, and apt-get on 'apt-get upgrade' ('update' works):
~# aptitude Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying.. Segmentation fault ~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid InRelease [146 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main i386 Packages [7,478 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main TranslationIndex [2,045 B] Fetched 7,626 kB in 12s (617 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done ~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Segmentation fault I've tried (repeatedly) deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin, but it doesn't help, nor does anything else I try. This system has worked fine for years; it's uptodate Sid, and the problem has begun several days ago. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110630084032.dcbc1cfa.cele...@gmail.com