Bug#196071: apt-get upgrade results in a segmentation fault

[Davide Frey <frey@elet.polimi.it>]

I tried doing that, although files were in /var/cache/apt.
Nevertheless, apt-get update recreates them and any subsequent apt-get 
upgrade or other commant continues to fail in the same manner.
Both files are approximately 7 MB large.

Davide Frey



Otavio Salvador wrote:

> Davide Frey <frey@elet.polimi.it> writes:
>
>  
>
> > apt-get upgrade
> > or 
> > apt-get install anything 
> > invariably results in a segfault
> >    
>
> Try remove the pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin like this:
>
> rm -f /var/lib/cache/{,src}pkgcache.bin
>
> after this do:
>
> apt-get update
>
> and try others commands. Probably you have some energy fail or like
> while apt was creating the cache files.
>
> []s
>
>