Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, paul wrote: > It'd be nice to know what caused it. I'm leaning to hardware problems, > as I noticed in my journals that I had some rather funny filesystem and > data coruption problems with a similar motherboard (MVP3) and this same > HD (Quantum 6.4 gig) last year when the

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-11 Thread paul
Thanks Jason, Your sugestion took care of the problem, and all is now well AFAIK. > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, paul wrote: > > > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > > with the following messages: > > Usually 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' makes it go away, I do

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, paul wrote: > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > with the following messages: Usually 'rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin' makes it go away, I dont understand how it is possible to get into a state where that is required Jason

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread paul
On 10 March, 2000, I said: > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > with the following messages: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% > > The first I have seen before, but the second I have not. All aplications > that > I u

Re: Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread dan
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:34:44PM -0500, paul generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited > with the following messages: > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% > This could mean several things. Segmen

Apt message "Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%"

2000-03-10 Thread paul
Today, when doing "apt-get upgrade" on my "Potato" machine, apt-get exited with the following messages: Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% The first I have seen before, but the second I have not. All aplications that I use regularly seem to be working properly, and I