scimitar:~# apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -u Get: 1 http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing/main Translation-en_US Ign http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US Ign http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US Hit http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing Release Get: 2 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/main Translation-en_US Ign http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/contrib Translation-en_US Ign http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/non-free Translation-en_US Hit http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing Release Get: 3 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release Hit http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Get: 4 http://debian.secsup.org testing Release.gpg [189B] Ign http://debian.secsup.org testing/main Translation-en_US Ign http://debian.secsup.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US Ign http://debian.secsup.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US Hit http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp-atl.osuosl.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://debian.secsup.org testing Release Hit http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Packages Hit http://debian.secsup.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://debian.secsup.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://debian.secsup.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Fetched 4B in 11s (0B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies. libpam-modules: Conflicts: libpam-motd Conflicts: libpam-mkhomedir Conflicts: libpam-umask lsb-base: Depends: ncurses-bin but it is not installed nfs-common: Conflicts: nfs-client passwd: Depends: login (>= 970502-1) but it is not installed procps: Conflicts: watch python: Depends: python-minimal (= 2.4.4-6) but it is not installed python2.4: Depends: python2.4-minimal (= 2.4.4-6) but it is not installed whiptail: Conflicts: whiptail-provider E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. scimitar:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...Segmentation fault scimitar:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...Segmentation fault scimitar:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies...Segmentation fault scimitar:~# gdb apt-get GNU gdb 6.6.90.20070912-debian Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run -f install Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get -f install (no debugging symbols found) Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7e6c51e in pkgDepCache::Update () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.4 (gdb) bt #0 0xb7e6c51e in pkgDepCache::Update () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.4 #1 0xb7e6c7d8 in pkgDepCache::Update () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.4 #2 0xb7e6d551 in pkgDepCache::MarkInstall () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.4 #3 0xb7e7d986 in pkgFixBroken () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.4 #4 0x0804dad0 in ?? () #5 0x0805e702 in ?? () #6 0xb7e5c9cb in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.4 #7 0x0804e96b in ?? () #8 0xb7be5050 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #9 0x0804ce61 in ?? () (gdb)