Bug#475770: apt-get autoremove segfaults when running as normal user
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: minor
Running apt-get autoremove ends with segfaults when running as normal user.
Here is an example
dario@illusion:~$ apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
libwine-capi fakeroot libdjvulibre15 djvulibre-plugin patchutils
libopenexr2ldbl libjack0.100.0-0 kbuild libcapi20-3 djview4 hspell
noatun xdg-utils
kaboodle libtotem-plparser7 dpatch libkdcraw2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
djview4 djvulibre-plugin dpatch fakeroot hspell kaboodle kbuild
libcapi20-3 libdjvulibre15 libjack0.100.0-0 libkdcraw2 libopenexr2ldbl
libtotem-plparser7 libwine-capi noatun patchutils xdg-utils
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 17.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open
/var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
Segmentation fault
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://debian.torredehanoi.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.torredehanoi.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
#deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the
Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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