Bug#165448: apt crashes
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: serious
When I invoke apt-get to install a new package, it crashes :
root@p204:/home/jumper# apt-get install xawtv
zsh: segmentation fault apt-get install xawtv
here is the gdb output :
root@p204:/home/jumper# gdb apt-get
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
(gdb) run install xawtv
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install xawtv
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no
debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400c5b52 in debPackagesIndex::FindInCache () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
(gdb) bt
#0 0x400c5b52 in debPackagesIndex::FindInCache () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#1 0x4009eb79 in pkgCacheGenerator::WriteUniqString () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#2 0x4009fdec in pkgMakeStatusCache () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#3 0x40095825 in pkgCacheFile::Open () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#4 0x080581ab in strcpy ()
#5 0x4006431a in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from
/usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2
#6 0x08063610 in strcpy ()
#7 0x4017a9d3 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
I am using a debian unstable, kernel 2.4.19 and libc6 2.3.1-1
My regards,
Guillaume
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