On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Robert Elz wrote:

> The core dumps come deep inside the btree routines from libc ...

It could well be that your package database file is corrupt, thus causing
the btree routines that interact with it to fail... I'm not sure how you
rebuild it or test it, but if you find out, consider doing that :-)

ABS

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