[maemo-users] apt-get .. segmentation fault ..

[From: Paul Hartman]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Maurizio Napolitano <napoogle at gmail.com> wrote:
> On my N900 the command apt-get (and its front-end) does'nt work.
> The shell command writes me "Segmentation fault": (
>
> I installend the Maemo Community SSU-20.2010.36 2maemo14.1 with kernel
> 2.6.28.10 Linux Nokia-N900-power47
>
> Any suggestion?

Try to delete these files (make a backup of them first):

/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin

I remember reading that apt can crash if those files became corrupted somehow.