seg fault???

[reggler]

Hi There,

I get a seg fault with apt-get
apt-get update works fine but then I do

apt-get upgrade
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

And the same whe i try to install filezilla:

apt-get install filezilla
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

What's going on here? Help would be appreciated!
This after I just rebooted my system... and "Update Manager" in the tray gives my a Crash Handler message that says it closed unexpectedly, same with Muon... seems like it's pretty serious stuff...
Thanks!
Ron

[reggler]

syslog just says

Jun 22 16:28:56 regDesktopHome kernel: [29567.004556] apt-get[8335]: segfault at 7f32b978cd14 ip 00007f32bad1e832 sp 00007fff065a1550 error 6 in libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0[7f32bac4b000+120000]

when I do apt-get update

[vinnywright]

IDK but you could try a

sudo dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12

which is where that is installed from

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:/usr/share/man$ dpkg-query -S libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0
libapt-pkg4.12: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0

VINNY

[reggler]

Negative, did that and then re-tried an ap-get upgrade but again, syslog:

Jun 22 17:23:29 regDesktopHome kernel: [32838.734637] apt-get[17506]: segfault at 7f48e76d4d14 ip 00007f48e8c66832 sp 00007fff58bef120 error 6 in libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0[7f48e8b93000+120000]

[reggler]

as root I got something like

root@regDesktopHome:~# dpkg-query -S libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0
libapt-pkg4.12: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12.0
root@regDesktopHome:~# dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12
root@regDesktopHome:~# apt-get upgrade
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[SteveRiley]

Hm, segfault in libapt-pkg.so, same problem that pablo173 reported.

Here's the version currently on my machine:

steve@x1:~$ [B]dpkg -l | grep libapt-pkg4.12[/B]
ii  libapt-pkg4.12                       0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.2

Checking /var/log/apt/history.log, I see that on 15 June, the version above replaced the prior one: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.1.

Try this:

sudo apt-get clean

Can you use APT now?

[pablo173]

Tried sudo apt-get clean

Result:
desktop:~$ sudo apt-get clean
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

Tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12

Result:
desktop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: libapt-pkg4.12 is broken or not fully installed

Tried rebooting:
Result:
No Help.

[reggler]

Hm, segfault in libapt-pkg.so, same problem that pablo173 reported.

Here's the version currently on my machine:

steve@x1:~$ [B]dpkg -l | grep libapt-pkg4.12[/B]
ii  libapt-pkg4.12                       0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.2

Checking /var/log/apt/history.log, I see that on 15 June, the version above replaced the prior one: 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.1.

Try this:

sudo apt-get clean

Can you use APT now?

Negative:

reg@regDesktopHome:~$ sudo -s
sudo: unable to resolve host regDesktopHome
[sudo] password for reg: 
root@regDesktopHome:~# dpkg -l | grep libapt-pkg4.12
ii  libapt-pkg4.12                                0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.2                  package managment runtime library
root@regDesktopHome:~# apt-get clean
root@regDesktopHome:~# apt-get upgrade
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root@regDesktopHome:~#

[reggler]

Tried sudo apt-get clean

Result:
desktop:~$ sudo apt-get clean
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

Tried sudo dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12

Result:
desktop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: libapt-pkg4.12 is broken or not fully installed

Yep, that's what I got:

root@regDesktopHome:~# apt-get clean
root@regDesktopHome:~# dpkg-reconfigure libapt-pkg4.12
root@regDesktopHome:~# apt-get upgrade
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root@regDesktopHome:~#

[Snowhog]

Try removing the two *.bin files in /var/cache/apt and then rerunning sudo apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade (instead of just upgrade).

[pablo173]

Tried removing /var/cache/apt/archives/lock.

Now Apper says, "The package download failed. Please check your network connectivity... E: Internal Error, No file name for libapt-pkg4.12".

and

Synaptic says, "E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the download directory".

[Snowhog]

Do you have the graphical package manager running/open? Almost sounds like you do.

[pablo173]

Don't know what you mean by the "graphical package manager".

[Snowhog]

Are you running Muon or any other package manager from the Menu, and have a console/terminal open and running sudo apt-get?

[pablo173]

Not running Muon -- Muon was not installed when I upgraded to Precise. I can run Synaptic from the Menu, but it gives the errors as noted above. I would run sudo apt-get from Konsole. BTW, the lock file that I removed was regenerated when I retried Apper and Synaptic.