Hi, I installed updates today (running testing), using update-manager, after installing I clicked the close button as usual, but then update-manager just crashed completely. Trying to start update-manager resulted in a segfault, running aptitude or 'apt-get upgrade' gives the same segfault (apt-get update does not). The kern.log file gives the following information: Mar 22 11:48:56 pc-steven kernel: [ 36.387925] update-manager[3999]: segfault at e398f000 ip b7130e95 sp b2133c50 error 5 in libapt-pkg.so.4.10.1[b70b1000+101000] Mar 22 11:49:11 pc-steven kernel: [ 51.306765] aptitude[4047]: segfault at e8ee0000 ip b7791e95 sp bf8943a0 error 5 in libapt-pkg.so.4.10.1[b7712000+101000] Mar 22 11:50:23 pc-steven kernel: [ 123.077031] aptitude[4067]: segfault at e8ea5000 ip b7756e95 sp bfc89fa0 error 5 in libapt-pkg.so.4.10.1[b76d7000+101000] Mar 22 11:50:47 pc-steven kernel: [ 146.735876] apt-get[4100]: segfault at e93e1000 ip b7812e95 sp bf805b70 error 5 in libapt-pkg.so.4.10.1[b7793000+101000] Those 4 lines are from 4 different tries, every time pointing at libapt-pkg.so.4.40.1 The solution suggested by Matt Zimmerman in 2004 works, so I think it's the same problem, I didn't do the trace however. Looking at the log files, the same message appears when the initial instance of update-manager crashed. Kind regards, Steven
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