Bug#216249: apt utils segfault

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

merge 216249 81829
thanks

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:24:49PM +0200, Jens Thiele (karme) wrote:

> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing netstd (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> Program exited with code 0144.

This is #166758, which is long fixed.

> and both:
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> give me a segfault:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x400a2270 in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2

This looks like #81829.  Delete /var/cache/apt/*.bin and re-run apt-get
update to verify.

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 - mdz