Re: Bug#221706: segfault when reading package lists

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

merge 221706 220597
thanks

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:10:30AM -0800, Ken Treis wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >Please send a copy of `diff -u /var/backups/dpkg.status.0
> >/var/lib/dpkg/status` (or whichever backup is dated prior to the upgrade).
> 
> Attached.

Thanks.  The two interesting things I see so far are:

- You have an unpacked-but-not-configured package.  Did dpkg or apt crash
  during the actual upgrade process?  What happens if you run dpkg
  --configure -a?

- One of the upgraded packages (wget) seems to have changed to using UTF-8
  in its control file.  Though, I upgraded to the same version on an
  i386/unstable machine and had no problems.

This is starting to sound like #220597.  Maybe another weird buffer handling
bug like #139328.

-- 
 - mdz