Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:06:18 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 14:19:42 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion; I just tried - no luck. I'll add here that > > apt-cache search some_package also segfaults, at least some of the time. > > I've dist-upgraded my Sid machine n

Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 14:19:42 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion; I just tried - no luck. I'll add here that > apt-cache search some_package also segfaults, at least some of the time. I've dist-upgraded my Sid machine not 5 minutes ago. It had 0.8.15.1 for apt. Segfaulting and pin

Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:09:55 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 08:40:32 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > I've tried (repeatedly) deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin, but it doesn't > > help, nor does anything else I try. > > Did you try replacing /var/lib/dpkg/available and/or /var/lib/dpkg/statu

Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 08:40:32 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I've tried (repeatedly) deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin, but it doesn't > help, nor does anything else I try. Did you try replacing /var/lib/dpkg/available and/or /var/lib/dpkg/status with the -old copies? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Celejar
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/ma