Whats up with apt-get
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at welho.com
Fri Mar 5 12:59:12 UTC 2004
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Guy Fraser wrote:
> Yeseterday it worked fine, and updated a bunch of stuff.
> I rebooted and now it segfaults.
>
> ...$ sudo apt-get update
> Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386 release [1991B]
> Fetched 1991B in 0s (3183B/s)
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/core pkglist
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/core release
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/updates pkglist
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/updates release
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms pkglist
> Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms release
> Segmentation fault
>
> I removed the apt package and reinstalled it, and it works again.
>
> Wuss up witt dat?
You've just seen https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1238 in
action. It blows up inside rpmlib, trying to take rpmdb lock and then if
you install/remove *something* with rpm it typically just goes away - I'm
quite mystified by it :(
- Panu -
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