Nicola Bernardini wrote:
Can someone please tell me what's wrong? Or is it the hardware that is dying? (Note: the disk is a brand new 2.5 external HDD without external power supply: could this be the problem?)
I've seen segfaults from apt-get on Squeeze running on SPARC, but due to pressure of other commitments haven't had time to follow them up- I reverted to Lenny for the machine I was working on.
Knowing that both SPARC and (the variant of ARM in) the NSLU2 are susceptible to alignment errors, that would be where I'd look.
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