Bug#97924: apt-get segfaults on all operations - changing sources.list fixes ?!

[Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3

apt-get update (and other operations) segfaulted here:
#0  0x4006c0bc in pkgDepCache::CheckDep ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4006c0bc in pkgDepCache::CheckDep ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
#1  0x4006cc16 in pkgDepCache::DependencyState ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
#2  0x4006cfbd in pkgDepCache::Update ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
#3  0x4006c01e in pkgDepCache::Init ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
#4  0x4008d8f9 in pkgCacheFile::Open ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
#5  0x8056137 in strcpy ()
#6  0x4005fe9e in CommandLine::DispatchArg ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1
#7  0x8061b33 in strcpy ()
#8  0x401742eb in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) 

on a friend's machine.

The core is at:
http://noisette.axialys.net/~huggie/apt-core (625k)

The whole contents of /etc/apt are there too in the apt-conf.tar.gz

Now for the really strange thing:

In his /etc/apt/sources.list he has:
deb http://debian.axialys.net/debian/non-US sid/non-US main contrib
non-free

And when I commented out this line I found I could run apt-get update
with no problems.

So naturally I took out the # and reran it expecting it to dump core
again but it didn't.

So I now have a totally working apt-get and I'm filing this bug just in
case you can see (from the core) the bug that caused the original
segfault.

(debian.axialys.net is a local mirror of ftp.uk.debian.org (when it
works) but it should be accessible).



Simon.

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