apt-get segfaults!!

[Eray Ozkural (exa)]

Thomas Lange wrote:
> 
>     > We haven't been able to find the cause of the bug but we think
>     > it's an apt bug when it's given many packages for an install
>     > run.
> 
>     > Selecting previously deselected package lam-runtime.
>     > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg recieved a segmentation fault.
> 
> No it's dpkg which segfaults. It's a known problem also for potato (I
> send a bug report to wichert). Try to change the list of packages to install.

Argh. I must have known it. The dependency routines...

There's also a bug about debconf, it depends on perl-*-base while
it should depend on the big perl package.

> I can produce this error if I add the class DEBIAN_DEVEL and it
> dissapears without those software packages. But it's not a problem of
> a certain package. The list of packages produces the error.
> 

Hmmm. Does the _order_ matter?

> Maybe we should try
> echo $packlist | xargs chroot ... apt-get install ???
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Installing them by one by solves the problem??

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo at cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo