Segmentation Fault While Running Apt-Get Update

Segmentation Fault While Running Apt-Get Update

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and when I try to run

apt-get update

It gives an error

Reading package lists... Error!
Segmentation fault

What could be the root cause of this? And how can I fix it?

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1 Answer

The mistake was in sources.list I had duplicate source lists. So it was trying to read them again and again and failing to fork. I rebooted my machine. Deleted the duplicate sources. Its working all fine and good

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