apt-get … Segmentation Faulty Tree

I have tried to use both Synaptic and apt-get, Running apt-get install (anything) from the command line (as root) yeilds this result:

root@dean-laptop:/# apt-get install netselect
Reading package lists… Done
Segmentation faulty tree… 0%

I’ve done some GOOGLING and it seems this bug has been seen before,
but no intelligent handling has been added to apt. See bug Bug#84277
where Jason Gunthorpe writes:

> apt-get segfaults w/out (in my opinion) any reason:

This has always been traced back to file corruption in /var/cache/apt/*.bin

If you can erase those files and run the apt command and have it work then
that is definately the problem.

Nobody has ever been able to reproduce it, unless they have buggy hardware
:>

Jason

So I suspect corrupted data files. delete /var/cache/apt/*.bin followed by “apt-get update” to reset apt.Which indeed fixed this error condition.

but that’s very strange,My Laptop does not not have buggy hardware, apt-get has been working fine from the start.

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TAGS: apt-get, linux, synaptic, ubuntu

Posted on August 27th, 2006 in linux

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Alex On December 17th, 2011 at 9:14 pm (#)

And a cheers for it resolving my problem with Ubuntu 10.10.

Nagaraja On February 8th, 2011 at 2:15 am (#)

Thanks Man,

It really helped me to solve the problem

June Parcon On November 30th, 2010 at 2:21 am (#)

THANKS THIS pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin
HELPS

mifa On September 27th, 2009 at 6:06 am (#)

Thanks this worked on my 9.04 tablet system. Had some disk issues and cleaning up the system messed the package managers up. removing the *.bin files fixed the issue

Mauricio Roman On January 8th, 2009 at 5:19 pm (#)

The /var/cache/apt/*.bin files were not present in my system (Ubuntu 8.04.1) however, I ran apt-get update to see what would happen and . . . voila! solved. Like a charm. Thank you.

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Erik On December 16th, 2008 at 2:56 am (#)

This fix (deleting the /var/cache/apt/*.bin files) also works on Ubuntu 8.04.

I wish “clean” would do just that. Seems logic to me that clean would remove the cache too… since it’s supposed to remove the archive files (apparently stored in the “archives” folder at the same place as the cache.)

But then again, who am I to complain? apt-get has worked as a charm for me since somewhere around 2005 or so… before that I used urpmi (I think) in mandrake and it was a *pain*.

Again, thanks a load for the fix!

harry On September 5th, 2008 at 9:56 am (#)

thank you very much,its very helpful

xafer On August 9th, 2008 at 9:58 pm (#)

Thanks man, I’ve already started cursing my eagerness to update!

Dai Fu On August 7th, 2008 at 12:49 am (#)

Very helpful hint. I got this problem after updating files.

Thanks.

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