Bug#131573: apt: Segfault on any operation
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: critical
Not sure why, but a very annoying segfault happens every time I try anything!
loif:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Segmentation fault
loif:~#
By using strace (is it of any help to anyone?):
[...]
gettimeofday({1012419406, 298767}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1012419406, 301723}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1012419406, 304193}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1012419406, 306907}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1012419406, 308602}, NULL) = 0
) = 34ng Dependency Tree... DoneTree... Don"..., 34
write(1, "\n", 1
) = 1
brk(0x808a000) = 0x808a000
open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=306, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000
read(5, "/dev/hda2 / ext2 rw,errors=remou"..., 4096) = 306
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0
open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40017000
read(5, " total: used: free:"..., 4096) = 573
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x40017000, 4096) = 0
brk(0x8097000) = 0x8097000
brk(0x809e000) = 0x809e000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Could someone tell me how to repair the system?
Thank you very much.
Antonio Fiol
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux loif.w3ping.net 2.4.7 #12 Thu Dec 6 17:37:21 CET 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library
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