[TAG] segmentation fault in aptitude

[Suramya Tomar]

Hi Everyone,
I had the exact same problem a few days ago after I ran a apt-get 
dist-upgrade on my system. The following changes were made during this:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
   xprt-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   gaim-data libboost-python1.32.0 libdevmapper1.01 sudo xprint 
xprint-common
The following packages will be upgraded:

capplets capplets-data fontconfig gaim gedit gedit-common gksu 
gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-terminal 
gs-common gstreamer0.8-oss ifupdown kdeedu kig kvim libcurl3 libecal6 
libedataserver3 libexif10 libgimp2.0 libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 
libgstreamer0.8-0 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libidl0 
libieee1284-3 libmyspell3 libmysqlclient14 libmysqlclient14-dev 
liborbit2 libpanel-applet2-0 libsane libselinux1 libvte-common libvte4 
libwrap0 libxml2 libxslt1 libxslt1.1 lilo lsof mysql-common-4.1 portmap 
sane-utils   tasksel tcpd time vim vim-common whois xprt xprt-xprintorg

I guess one of these is causing apt to die.

Another issue I noticed was that KDE was refusing to run after the 
upgrade. I kept getting an error saying that "There is already an 
instance of X-server running at :0 do you want to attempt starting a new 
instance at :1".

Unfortunately I needed my computer back up and running immediately 
'cause of project deadlines so I reinstalled Debian on it. So I won't be 
able to run more tests on it, but I thought that the above might help in 
figuring out what happened.

- Suramya


> hi list,
> I have installed debian testing in my linux box. yesterday when I tried 
> *aptitude install lircd*  it just did as below
> 
>  Reading Package Lists... Done
>  Segmentation faulty Tree... 70%
> 
> I also try *apt-get check* but it too displayed the same.
> 
> now I am in a condition where neither I install nor I remove something.
> 
> PLEASEEEEE suggest me how to fix this problem so that I can install lirc.
> 
> please CC to me
> 
> thanks in advanced.
> 


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