On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:59:49PM +0000, Phil Endecott wrote: >Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_arm <at> chezphil.org> writes: > >- Something about /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libshout.so.3 >causes ldconfig to segfault. (Try "strace ldconfig".) > >- Since many apt actions eventually cause ldconfig to be run, >this means that most apt-get invokations fail to work even if >they are unrelated to these packages or armhf at all. > >- "dpkg --remove libshout3:armhf" removes it successfully, >after which apt starts to work again. Phew! > >I hope there isn't too much more of this lurking... so: > >* Is there is bug in libshout3 and/or ldconfig here?
Yes, there is - #822489 in ldconfig. It's fixed already and that fix should be migrating into testing any day. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

