apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:34:11 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>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.

Assuming

  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

should lead to a SIGSEGV, too and a bug report should require
debugging, then the OP needs to download dbg package/s manually and
install package/s using dpkg.

FWIW /usr/bin/apt is already provided by 14.04,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/apt/filelist , maybe it makes a
difference to run

  sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
  sudo dpkg --configure -a
  sudo apt --fix-broken install


>> 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