Bug#212702: APT Segmentation fault

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

tags 212702 unreproducible
thanks

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:24:36PM +0200, Johnny .C wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.14-1
> 
> root@eva:/# apt-get update
> Segmentation fault
> root@eva:/# uname -a
> Linux eva 2.4.20 #1 Tue Aug 12 18:17:55 CEST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux
> root@eva:/# dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
> Version: 2.3.2-8
> root@eva:/# dpkg --status apt
> Package: apt
> Status: install ok installed
> 
> apt 0.5.13 worked fine but upgrade to 0.5.14 was fatal.
> I have deleted /var/cache/apt/*.bin but the segfault is still here.

It works here, with the same libc6.  What's more, 0.5.14 did not change any
code except which is used by commands other that "apt-get build-dep".

Perhaps your filesystem became corrupted or something like that?  Try
reinstalling apt and perhaps other packages you upgraded at the same time.

-- 
 - mdz