Bug#248258: apt: segfaults

[simon raven <simon@nuit.ca>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.25
Severity: grave
Tags: sid
Justification: renders package unusable



Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Release
Fetched 4317kB in 31s (139kB/s)
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update: line 42:  3387 Segmentation fault      $APTGET $OPTS "$APT_OPT0" "$APT_OPT1" update

update available list script returned error exit status 1.
Press <enter> to continue.

--------
when i ran dselect update

and when i run apt-get update:

Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/contrib Release
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.debian.org ../project/experimental/non-free Release
zsh: 3475 segmentation fault  apt-get update




-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "powerpc";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Cache-Limit "12582912";
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/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";

-- /etc/apt/preferences --

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-priority: 1000

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-priority: 998

-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-rc3-bk8
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.4.0-1    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-7    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information