[debian] apt segfaults after corrupted package download on d-u

Marcel tanuva at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 1 18:07:45 CEST 2008


Am Montag 01 September 2008 17:44:46 schrieb arne anka:
> > with a segfault when attempting to read the dependency tree [1].
> > What may I do about that?
>
> could be, your apt is stuck with that broken package (somewhere internally
> is probably an "unfinished job!" flag set).
> try to download the package manually (wget or so)
> apt-cache show linux-libc-dev
> shows in Filename the path, just prepend your favourite repository's url
> and install it by hand
> dpkg -i linux-libc-dev_2.6.26-4_armel.deb
>
>
> after that
> apt-ge -f install
> might be a good idea

Installing the package by hand worked fine, but apt is still stuck with a 
segfault.




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