[tech] apt-get on Maroon

[Bernard Blackham]

David Adam wrote:
> Somehow, Maroon is now in a state where apt-get goes into a
> seemingly-infinite loop. It was segfaulting for a while there, so I tried
> nuking the /var/cache/apt/*.bin files as recommended by someone
> on the web; now it just spins.
> 
> I forced a coredump and I have the file available if anyone thinks it
> would be useful.
> 
> I'm out of ideas.

Removed things from sources.list, ran apt-get update, and then added 
them all back, followed by an apt-get update.

Seems happy now.

Werd.

Bernard.