apt segfault

• 05 June 2023
• trace,
• apt

Tried doing a apt upgrade -y and got:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
[...]
Segmentation fault

Let's try to figure out how to fix this.

Maybe it's the lock/cache #

This article suggests removing lock files and cleaning your cache. Worth trying.

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock
sudo apt-get clean all

That worked!

autoremove brings the segfault back #

About once a month, I run sudo apt autoremove to get rid of old kernels and things that have accumulated. But now I notice that running that gets me a segfault which then causes all other apt-get commands to segfault too.

Just running sudo apt-get clean all restores the other apt-get commands.

Weird.