seg fault of apt-get on a linkstation (was: Re: Problem: update hell: apt-get gives segmentation fault consistently)

2009-04-26 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Mungo. On Feb 23 2009, Mungo Henning wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my linkstation box and I'm getting > a dreaded crash in apt-get. Which linkstation do you have? I have a kurobox here and the kernel for that isn't included in Debian. I have been working with the upstream

Re: Problem: update hell: apt-get gives segmentation fault consistently

2009-02-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:24:36AM -, Mungo Henning wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my linkstation box and I'm getting > a dreaded crash in apt-get. [...] > --- > Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# apt-get -y install module-init-tools > Segmentation faultsts... 9% >

Re: Problem: update hell: apt-get gives segmentation fault consistently

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Rooney
Dear Mungo, No special treatment for newbies aside from recommending the essay 'How to Ask Questions the Right Way' in the case of obtuse questioners. You don't match that, so I'll go right into troubleshooting. Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list file - 'testing' used to be the same as

Problem: update hell: apt-get gives segmentation fault consistently

2009-02-22 Thread Mungo Henning
Hi, Help requested please; thankyou in advance. I'm reasonably experienced with Unix but not with Linux, so please treat me as a newbie: I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my linkstation box and I'm getting a dreaded crash in apt-get. When I run the webinstaller shell script it bombs out as c