Apt broken

[ms]

On 23/08/10 08:57, Christopher Lemire wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>
>> On 23/08/2010 16:40, Christopher Lemire wrote:
>>> After trying to remove Deluge from my system, I get errors from Apt no
>>> matter how I try to use it. Has anyone had this problem before? I need
>>> help please. Here are the errors I am getting.
>>>
>> apt is not broken, but something you did to get rid of that applications
>> didn't go right.
>>
>> I could offer a couple of suggestions but as I don't know enough about
>> this I won't even try - I'll leave it to a few others on this list.
>>
>> The main thing here is that your system is still working except for this
>> little problem - and for which there is a solution.
>>
>> Just relax and it will get resolved, OK? :-)
>>
>> BC
>>
>> --
>> Were you successful?
>>
>>
> The problem is gone. I thought something else is wrong when I saw that I was
> getting segfaults from the mv command. Some how I knew rebooting would fix
> everything, and it did. Apt is working fine, and I am not getting anymore
> segfaults.
>
>

Random segfaults from programs like "mv" are an ominous sign. Granted, 
it is probably just a fluke, but I would do a good memory test to see if 
your memory/motherboard isn't failing (It happened to me once).

Just to be sure, download memtest86, burn it on a spare cdr and run it 
for a night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86

cheers,
m.