Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition > > > (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch > > > of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on y

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition > > (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch > > of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on your > > friend's machine, he

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying t

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months > without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in > some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault > when trying to install package

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2004-07-13 Thread Christopher Parker
--- Christopher Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking > debconf (and > probably other programs). > > It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC > temporarily > fixed this problem.

[SOLVED]Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:29:22AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse said > > Hi > > > > I get this when running aptitude: [snip] > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault. > > Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:29:22AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse said > Hi > > I get this when running aptitude: > > The following packages will be upgraded: > libc6 locales > 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 127 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/8785kB of archives. After unpa