On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Their are only 2 known cases where this happens: > 1) Your libc/libstdc++ is screwed > 2) Your system has corrupted the data in /var/cache/apt/*.bin > > In #1 you have to fix it, in #2 it usually fixes itself next 'update', but > if that is not the case 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' always fixes it.
It seems #2 was the case but the next 'update' didn't fix it. I did a 'rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*' that fixed the problem for me (I didn't try a 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin'). > Nobody has been able to show that these are actual APT bugs, the reason I > have not closed the reports is because I would like it to handle #2 more > elegantly and make a better error message. That would be good because I can't remember doing anything wrong before and it took me some time to find the right solution. An advisory which files to delete would have saved me some time (and a segmentation fault is a bad error handling of a program so I would call it a bug). > Jason cu, Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
