Bug#214513: Illegal Instruction when apt-get tries to install a package
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.14
Severity: normal
When run apt-get in gdb I get the following:
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Power:~# gdb apt-get
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) set args install memtest86
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install memtest86
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
hwtools kernel-patch-badram
The following NEW packages will be installed:
memtest86
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/46.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 152kB of additional disk space will be used.
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x4008dff0 in pkgDPkgPM::Go() () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3
(gdb) bt
#0 0x4008dff0 in pkgDPkgPM::Go() () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3
#1 0x40062a75 in pkgPackageManager::DoInstall() () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3
#2 0x08050fea in strcpy ()
#3 0x080558a5 in strcpy ()
#4 0x40049b4c in CommandLine::DispatchArg(CommandLine::Dispatch*, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.3.3
#5 0x0805d766 in strcpy ()
#6 0x401a1e3e in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
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The error happens with every package installation it tries, after downloading the packages.
My system is an Athlon 700 with GNU/Debian testing and some unstable packages. apt-get worked fine until yesterday, after I
upgraded some (probably) unrelated packages. apt was upgraded some days ago, but I rebooted the machine only yesterday.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Default-Release "testing";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
# the main Debian packages. Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with most packages.
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# the non-US Debian packages. Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with non-US packages.
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# the main Debian packages. Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with most packages.
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# the non-US Debian packages. Uncomment the deb-src line if you
# want 'apt-get source' to work with non-US packages.
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux Power 2.4.21-4-k7 #1 Sun Aug 3 02:34:06 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-0pre4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-0pre4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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