Re: APT hosed, segving in libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8.1

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:55:26PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Today: apt0.7.23 and bang:
> $ apt-get update 
> ..
> 99% [11 Packages rred 2154496] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> 
> WARNING to everyone.

Thanks for your warning.
 
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0x00007fdea4ad8d6d in pkgAcqIndex::Failed(std::string, pkgAcquire::MethodConfig*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8

It looks like this is releated to the new code that adds lzma support
for Package file downloads and the option to configure in what order
the compression types should be used. I can not reproduce this
failure, Could you please send me your sources.list and the
architecture you are using?

Thanks,
 Michael

> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
> 
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