apt-get/aptitude: core dump...

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 15:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf 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.

Yes.

I had this with someone who had upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04. The
system booted and generally worked, but a lot of things behaved oddly,
were missing bits, or (like apt-get) segfaulted.

The damage was so widespread we ended up just reinstalling Ubuntu 16.04
from scratch. Luckily he had backed up his data before upgrading.

Regards, K.

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