Bug#84277: apt: apt-get segfaults

[jojo@beigel.de]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: important

apt-get segfaults w/out (in my opinion) any reason:

# apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.2.17
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
# apt-get install gcc
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
# apt-get update
Hit http://debian.jones.dk woody/misc Packages
[...]
Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%

Reboot and update from kernel version 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 didn't help.

Strange thing is: AFAIR the last update of the apt-package is some
time ago. But I never had any problems lately!?

Maybe this helps:

# gdb apt-get
GNU gdb 5.0
[...]
(gdb) run install gcc
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install gcc
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Reading Package Lists... Done
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4006ccbd in pkgDepCache::CheckDep () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7
(gdb) 


-jojo


-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux tobi 2.4.1 #1 Wed Jan 31 16:06:56 CET 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.1-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-14      The GNU stdc++ library