apt-get SEGV on hppa

["John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>]

Today, I tried apt-get update and it seg faulted.  Here is the gdb
backtrace:

root@hiauly6:/# gdb /usr/bin/apt-get core
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This GDB was configured as "hppa-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

Core was generated by `apt-get update'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//lib/libm-2.3.2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//lib/libc-2.3.2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug//lib/ld-2.3.2.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1
#0  0x402157dc in pkgCache::DepIterator::operator++ ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
   (gdb) bt
#0  0x402157dc in pkgCache::DepIterator::operator++ ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#1  0x401f6818 in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#2  0x401ff5f4 in debListParser::ParseDepends ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#3  0x401fe560 in debListParser::NewVersion ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#4  0x401f59fc in pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#5  0x40207824 in debPackagesIndex::Merge ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#6  0x401f7950 in pkgCacheGenerator::WriteUniqString ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#7  0x401f7e4c in pkgMakeStatusCache ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#8  0x401f0d98 in pkgCacheFile::Open ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#9  0x0002973c in CacheFile::Open ()
#10 0x00020ee0 in DoUpdate ()
#11 0x401c87f4 in CommandLine::DispatchArg ()
    from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3.so.3.2
#12 0x000246cc in main ()
(gdb)

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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