dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying to install packages. For example: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf Segmentation

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying to install packages.

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on your friend's machine, here is

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: My guess would be an incomplete or otherwise screwed-up Perl transition (dpkg-reconfigure is a Perl script and debconf's postinst calls a bunch of Perl scripts as well). Check the status of the Perl packages on your

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2004-07-13 Thread Christopher Parker
--- Christopher Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking debconf (and probably other programs). It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC temporarily fixed this problem. However,

dpkg segmentation fault

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Parker
Hello all, I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking debconf (and probably other programs). It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC temporarily fixed this problem. However, now if I try to install the latest

[SOLVED]Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-06 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:29:22AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse said Hi I get this when running aptitude: [snip] E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault. Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: [snip] I

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:29:22AM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse said Hi I get this when running aptitude: The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 locales 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 127 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8785kB of archives. After unpacking

dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I get this when running aptitude: The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 locales 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 127 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8785kB of archives. After unpacking 4694kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended