Package: apt Version: 0.8.15.2 Severity: important apt-get update fails to update list when it's configured to use http transport. signal 10 is a buserror here on sparc hardware. This hardware is very sensible to memory alignment access, more than intel hardware. Replacing all lines deb http://.... with lines like deb ftp://... allow the process update it's list correctly.
Here's the transcript: root# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid InRelease [146 kB] E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Sub-process http received signal 10. root# -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main #deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free #deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main #deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free #deb http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main contrib non-free #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ sid/updates main #deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sid/volatile main #deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile sid/volatile main -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-sparc64-smp (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.13-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.6.1-4 GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-4 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.8.0 Python interface to libapt-pkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org