apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Colin Law]

On 7 October 2016 at 14:27, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:13:41 +0200, Jacques Beigbeder wrote:
>>On an host (Ubuntu 14.04), I get:
>>  # aptitude install somePackage
>>  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> It indicates that there seems to be a serious issue.
>
> You should start with reporting this bug.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

I suspect it is more likely to be a mess-up in the system somewhere
rather than a bug, but you could be right.

Colin

>
> And then you most likely need to provide more debugging, perhaps
> starting with aptitude.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/aptitude-dbg
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
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