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wickett
July 16th, 2010, 05:59 PM
I found the answer here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg2387248.html


ubuntu@localhost:/var/log$ sudo apt-get remove sleuthkit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sleuthkit
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5,267kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 31365 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sleuthkit ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Segmentation fault

Turns out that if the /var/log/apt directory is missing then this wont work. I was able to get this working again with a


sudo mkdir /var/log/apt