Bug#197430: apt-get segfaults
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.5.1
# apt-get -d -u dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Segmentation faulty Tree... 50%
and again with gdb:
# gdb
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(gdb) file apt-get
Reading symbols from apt-get...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run -d -u dselect-upgrade
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get -d -u dselect-upgrade
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Reading Package Lists... Done..(no debugging symbols found)...
Building Dependency Tree... 50%
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4005bee2 in pkgDepCache::CheckDep(pkgCache::DepIterator, int, pkgCache::PkgIterator&) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3(gdb)
this has happened before, and i've worked around it in the past by either
changing my sources.list file or "rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin" and running
"dselect update" again. that isn't helping this time.
my sources.list contains
deb file:/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb file:/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
apt's dependancies are the latest versions in unstable:
# dpkg -l libc6 libgcc1 libstdc++5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============-==========-=================================================
ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii libgcc1 3.3-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 3.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
craig
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