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 Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:12:24PM +, David Corking was heard to say: > 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 lon

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

Re: How to troubleshoot aptitude segfaults ?

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:18:32AM +, David Corking was heard to say: > Please suggest the next steps for troubleshooting an aptitude > installation that is crashing. I was going to suggest installing aptitude-dbg, but... > As far as I can tell, the trouble began when an 'upgrade' put 4.0

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

Re: aptitude segfaults

2002-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.23.0309 +0100]: > > after the preloading and .so binding finished, aptitude call > > gettimeofday() 14315 times, most of the time just one after the other, > > but sometimes there are entries like > > [snippage] > > Are you using Sid? libc_2.3.1-

Re: aptitude segfaults

2002-12-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:14:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > on one of my machines, aptitude segfaults since this morning. the > strace shows some weird events: > > after the preloading and .so binding finished, aptitude call > gettimeofday() 14315 times, most of the time jus

[solved] aptitude segfaults

2002-12-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.22.1714 +0100]: > on one of my machines, aptitude segfaults since this morning. the > strace shows some weird events: this was fixed by a call to `aptitude update`. weird. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can

aptitude segfaults

2002-12-22 Thread martin f krafft
on one of my machines, aptitude segfaults since this morning. the strace shows some weird events: after the preloading and .so binding finished, aptitude call gettimeofday() 14315 times, most of the time just one after the other, but sometimes there are entries like gettimeofday({1040573332