On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Matt Herzog wrote: > Perhaps I should address this mail to the apt or dpkg mailing list > but I thought I'd try here forst in case it's a Sparc-specific issue. > I already and repeatedly tried the suggested solution to no avail.
Long ago I observed that some of the older not-ultrasparc sparcs had a bug that caused writable mmap corruption that gave these symptoms. I've also seen similar problems on some BSD versions that botched msync. IIRC. Jason

