I'm trying to update my system and its seriously broken. How can I reinstall dpkg, when dpkg is Segfaulting?
libpam-runtime was broken during upgrade earlier. Thanks for any help. Its much needed! Rory myhost:/var/cache/apt# apt-get install --reinstall dpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libpam-runtime The following packages will be upgraded: dpkg libpam-runtime 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 186 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 53.7kB/1143kB of archives. After unpacking 57.3kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main libpam-runtime 0.76-16 [53.7kB] Fetched 53.7kB in 0s (444kB/s) (Reading database ... 36215 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libpam-runtime 0.76-15 (using .../libpam-runtime_0.76-16_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpam-runtime ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault. myhost:/var/cache/apt# dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
