Re: How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-13 Thread David Corking
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >  I would suggest just upgrading aptitude on its own (with the command > "apt-get install aptitude") and seeing whether it works.  If it does, > you can use it for the rest of the upgrade. > Thanks Daniel - this is sure to work for me. Unfo

Re: How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread David Corking
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: >  I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but... > >  ...do you mean etch or lenny? Yes - I mean etch (4.0). I upgraded that server to etch a long time ago, then put up with a broken aptitude for a long time without investigating de

How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread David Corking
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 tre