On Nov 26, 4:20 am, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got an error during the installation because no kernel was > found. syslog complained about missing dependencies and advised that > "apt-get -f install" should be run. I entered the target and issues > that command but apt-get segfaulted. After manually installing a .deb > with dpkg, apt-get worked fine... this seems like a corrupted dpkg > databaseto me. Has anyone seen this before? It sounds similar to > something someone recently mentioned on -mips. I'm on ARM and several > test installations in the last few days worked fine.
To diagnose this problem further, I downloaded gdb with wget, but instead of installing it with dpkg, I unpacked it with ar and then untar'd data.tar.gz to /target. I then chroot'd to /target and ran apt-get with gdb. Here is a full output: ~ # cd /root /root # wget http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdb/gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.deb Connecting to debian.osuosl.org[64.50.236.52]:80 gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.d 100% |*****************************| 2481 KB 00:00 ETA /root # ar -x gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.deb /root # ls control.tar.gz debian-binary data.tar.gz gdb_6.5.dfsg-2_arm.deb /root # cd /target /target # tar xzvf /root/data.tar.gz . ./usr ./usr/share ./usr/share/man ./usr/share/man/man1 ./usr/share/man/man1/gdb.1.gz ./usr/share/man/man1/gdbserver.1.gz ./usr/share/man/man1/gdbtui.1.gz ./usr/share/man/man1/arm-linux-gnu-run.1.gz ./usr/share/doc ./usr/share/doc/gdb ./usr/share/doc/gdb/NEWS.gz ./usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.dvi.gz ./usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.ps.gz ./usr/share/doc/gdb/changelog.gz ./usr/share/doc/gdb/README.Debian ./usr/share/doc/gdb/copyright ./usr/share/doc/gdb/README.gz ./usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.tex.gz ./usr/share/doc/gdb/changelog.Debian.gz ./usr/share/menu ./usr/share/menu/gdb ./usr/lib ./usr/bin ./usr/bin/gdbtui ./usr/bin/gdb ./usr/bin/gdbserver ./usr/bin/arm-linux-gnu-run ./usr/bin/gcore /target # cd ~ # chroot /target sh-3.1# gdb apt-get GNU gdb 6.5-debian Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "arm-linux-gnu"...(no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run -f install Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get -f install (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x4005e62c in pkgDepCache::Update () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.11 (gdb) Unless anybody can come up with any other ideas or suggestions, my next step is to recompile apt-get with debugging information. Gordon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
