Bug#366717: Method http has died unexpectedly (Packages/DiffIndex)

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> [2006-05-11 13:36]:
> > > If it segfauls a gdb backtrace (if possible).
> > apt-get itself doesn't segfault - it just prints an error.  Or is
> > there a separate program that apt-get calls which might segfault?
> It may well be that /usr/lib/apt/methods/http segfaults. Could you
> please try something like:

Oh fun:

1728:tbm@bilbao: ~/build] sudo chroot test
sh-3.1# /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
100 Capabilities
Version: 1.2
Pipeline: true
Send-Config: true

600 URI Acquire
URI: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release
FileName: /tmp/lala

102 Status
URI: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release
Message: Connecting to ftp.de.debian.org

102 Status
URI: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release
Message: Connecting to ftp.de.debian.org (141.76.2.4)

102 Status
URI: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release
Message: Waiting for headers

200 URI Start
URI: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/Release
Size: 38339
Last-Modified: Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:11 GMT

Bus error
sh-3.1#


Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
0x70056f34 in SHA256SumValue::operator== () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.11
(gdb) where
#0  0x70056f34 in SHA256SumValue::operator== () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.11
#1  0x7005988c in SHA256Summation::Add () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6.so.3.11
#2  0x00012614 in ?? ()
#3  0x00012614 in ?? ()
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb)

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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/