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 -
