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  1. Bug #119707
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 119707

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Felix_55 (lccflc) wrote : Re: [Bug 119707] Re: Apt crashes with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg() on corrupted pkgcache.bin

Gioele Barabucci ha scritto:
> Basically the problem here is that apt and aptitude cannot deal with
> malformed cached files.
>
> In my case these cached files have become corrupted because I had a
> power failure while updating my system. Probably the ext3 file system
> did not restore everything correctly.
>
> Could the next person that find this bug report attach the corrupted
> *.bin files before removing them?

Certainly, I'll be more careful and just had to recheck the situation, I
shall be pleased to report also indicted files.
Thanks for your kind attention,
Felice Liccardi