synaptic

[tech_rex]

I have a Ubuntu 7.04-fiesty fawn on my machine and it has problem with synaptic.
When I try to install any package by aptitude,dpkg or by synaptic it says segmentation fault(core dumped).

I have done one thing as suggested by some guys familiar with linux

I have gone to location /var/cache/apt/archives and deleted the lock file that was there.

Can anypne help me with this.

Regards,

tech_rex....

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update

Post exact error message here, if any.

[tech_rex]

thanks for your reply here is the error that I get

root@fablab-desktop:/home/fablab# sudo apt-get clean all
root@fablab-desktop:/home/fablab# sudo apt-get update
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


[ALSO WHEN I TRY synaptic here is the thing that I get


root@fablab-desktop:/home/fablab# synaptic
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root@fablab-desktop:/home/fablab#

[devils casper]

Post the contents of limits.conf file here.

cat /etc/security/limits.conf

[tech_rex]

fablab@fablab-desktop:~$ cat /etc/security/limits.conf
# /etc/security/limits.conf
#
#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
#
#<domain> <type> <item> <value>
#
#Where:
#<domain> can be:
# - an user name
# - a group name, with @group syntax
# - the wildcard *, for default entry
# - the wildcard &#37;, can be also used with %group syntax,
# for maxlogin limit
#
#<type> can have the two values:
# - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
# - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
#
#<item> can be one of the following:
# - core - limits the core file size (KB)
# - data - max data size (KB)
# - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
# - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
# - nofile - max number of open files
# - rss - max resident set size (KB)
# - stack - max stack size (KB)
# - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
# - nproc - max number of processes
# - as - address space limit
# - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
# - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system
# - priority - the priority to run user process with
# - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
# - sigpending - max number of pending signals
# - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)
# - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to
# - rtprio - max realtime priority
#
#<domain> <type> <item> <value>
#

#* soft core 0
#* hard rss 10000
#@student hard nproc 20
#@faculty soft nproc 20
#@faculty hard nproc 50
#ftp hard nproc 0
#@student - maxlogins 4

# End of file


tech_rex,

Pune..