[Xbox-linux-user] Re: Its back...Segmentation faulty Tree

[Gregory J. M. <gj...@ca...>]

> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:19:56 +0200
> From: Marko Friedemann <mar...@in...>
> To: xbo...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Xbox-linux-user] Its back...Segmentation faulty Tree
> Reply-To: xbo...@li...
> 
> David Ondzes schrieb:
> 
> > I had this problem a few weeks ago and it suddenly disappeared a few
> > days latter but now it is back. Any idea how I fix the problem ?
> 
> As, I believe, Oliver pointed out before, it might well be that 
> something else is just overwritten by "Segmentation fault" (see below).
> 
> > root@xbox:/usr/debian/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get clean
> > root@xbox:/usr/debian/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get check
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Segmentation faulty Tree... 53%
> 
> As you can see, apt outputs it's progress. This is done so that it stays 
> in the same place and thus in the same row on the screen. When it then 
> hits whatever error there is, it simply puts "Segmentation fault" on top 
> of that very line (IMHO, that is):
> 
> I don't have a Debian near me right now, but let's just assume it says:
> Reading Package Lists... <XX% | Done>
> Building Dependency Tree... <XX% | Done>
> 
> Then while it is building said tree, it crashes, overwriting the line:
> 
> Building Dependency Tree... <XX% | Done>
> Segmentation fault      ^^ into that line
> 
> which results in:
> 
> Segmentation faulty Tree...
> 
> So it looks to me as if crashed while trying to build the dependencies. 
> Try to convince it to output a somewhat more helpful error.
> 
> regards,
> Marko

...There is a variable for VM when doing the dep resolution... I am not
a Debian wizzard, so I don't remember what the line to add is..

I remember something similar when doing an apt-get update on Knoppix
awhile back.