Thanks James. I did look at the buildd page and saw large number working on being rebuilt and thought it might be something like this.
I will change the mirror and reload simple for quickness. I figured it was better to mention it... Rod On 11/16/2016 1:32 PM, James Clarke wrote: > Hi Rod, >> On 16 Nov 2016, at 17:13, rod <r.schn...@mythos.freeddns.org> wrote: >> >> I followed the guide you wrote (after dumping debian for solaris to >> reset the sc> password). It works well as written, covering all the >> issues that came up. >> >> The current problem I'm having is this: >> >> root@mw-monitor:/home/rod# aptitude >> Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying.. >> Segmentation fault >> >> or >> >> root@mw-monitor:/home/rod# apt-get install gunzip >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> ESegmentation fault >> >> with this on the console: >> >> [ 1656.976655] apt-get[545]: segfault at fff0000200794008 ip >> fff0000100015994 (rpc fff0000100015970) sp 000007feffa705b1 error 30001 >> in ld-2.24.so[fff0000100000000+22000] >> >> Any ideas? > > We’ve had to rebuild ~1700 packages built in the last couple of weeks, > since they were built with a broken binutils. My guess is that aptitude > was broken by this (it’s one of the packages built during that time > period). I am however surprised that apt-get is segfaulting; that was > built well before any of this mess. If I run that command I get this: > > # apt-get install gunzip > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package gunzip > > That’s with the latest version (1.3.1). FYI, there is no gunzip package; > it’s included in gzip. > > If you want to get a working system set up now, I suggest you reinstall > with your mirror configured to a snapshot taken before 2nd November using > http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/, as it’s going to be a > few days before everything has finished building. Unfortunately we weren’t > aware of the problem and how widespread it was when you were installing. > > Regards, > James >
