Segmentation Fault since Debian unstable upgrade

Alneyan · #1 February 28th, 2006, 09:58 AM

I cannot help you here, but thought I should still post, out of compassion (I'm the one desktop user who likes Debian stable, much more so than Sid, or the Sid on steroids known as Ubuntu).

Bluebird · #2 February 28th, 2006, 10:20 AM

You are so comforting, Alneyan :-D

thejeff · #3 February 28th, 2006, 10:48 AM

I've got the same issue. It looks like the problem is in libSDL-1.2.so.0, since thats the only one that changed between Sunday and Monday. There's no bug report against it yet, and a quick look at the package overview doesn't show anything obvious. I may try to downgrade it to the testing version and see what that breaks...

Meanwhile I can do my turns on my old slow laptop, which is I guess better than nothing.

thejeff · #4 February 28th, 2006, 10:06 PM

I got it working again. Downloaded the libsdl1.2debian-oss package from testing and installed it. Hasn't seemed to break anything else.

I got it from
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/ma...9-0.1_i386.deb

It'll probably break again next time I upgrade, but I'll just keep the .deb around and reinstall as necessary.

Bluebird · #5 March 1st, 2006, 11:04 AM

Yup, worked for me as well. It is really strange as it is only a repackage of the same library version. Have got no clue what changed.

Well - hope that one or the other side will eventually fix that incompatibility and I am able to upgrade my OS the normal way again.

BTW: It is always possible to set a package on 'hold' to prevent it from being updated by 'apt-get upgrade'. I just have to find out again how it is done ...

Alneyan · #6 March 1st, 2006, 11:27 AM

I'm pretty sure aptitude allows to set packages on hold, either through its interface (a bit clumsy for my tastes), or via a command (aptitude hold package_name ; unhold to remove the hold).

There should be other ways around the problem, of course (dpkg or dselect). Then again, it's not as if I update packages *that* often, being on stable and all.

thejeff · #7 March 1st, 2006, 08:42 PM

I've done the 'hold' thing before, and I'd have to go figure it out again...

Except, I updated again this morning and had to do an apt-get -f install to fix the dependcy problems I'd created. apt wanted to install libsdl1.2debian-alsa, so I let it and that seems to work fine.