Bug#673065: rred segfaults during apt-get update

[Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com>]

On 16 May 2012 04:09, Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com> wrote:

> on Saturday,  APT was upgraded from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3. But I saw a segfault
> from rred just today.
>
>        /var/log/syslog:May 15 4:30:26 hostname kernel: [11212.643812] rred[27456]: segfault at 822884c ip b73cad52 sp bfdf6c98 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[b735b000+156000]
>
> So it could be that bug #554387 [1] is not fixed yet. But I am not sure
> and therefore I am submitting a new report.
>
> Just for the record. I also had the `rred` segfaults with versions of
> APT less than 0.9.3.
>

Hello

So these are the same symptoms you reported in #656865.  In that
report you mention that 'apt-get update' fails "most of the time",
would you say this is still true for 0.9.3?

>
> Unfortunately I do not know how to reproduce that problem as it only
> happens “randomly”.
>

Not sure if this would be helpful: next time it happens and before you
run another apt command could you take a copy of the list files:

$ tar czf  /var/lib/apt/lists/

Regards