apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Colin Law]

On 7 October 2016 at 13:13, Jacques Beigbeder <Jacques.Beigbeder at ens.fr> wrote:
> Hello all experts,
>
> On an host (Ubuntu 14.04), I get:
>   # aptitude install somePackage
>   Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> and also:
>   # aptitude search somePackage
> displays a lot of:
>         p       ...
>         pi      ...
>         pB      ...
>
> apt-get does the same core dump
> It seems that some databases are corrupted, but which one?

Do you get any errors from
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
Does that command say that anything is held back?

Did anything particular happen prior to this starting?

Colin