Bug#674951: [libapt-pkg4.12] aptitude crashes while updating packages list
Package: libapt-pkg4.12
Version: 0.9.5.1
Severity: normal
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"aptitude update" causes segmentation fault in libapt-pkg.so.4.12:
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0xb72c8461 in
debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo(pkgCache::PkgFileIterator&, FileFd&,
std::string) ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
Backtrace attached.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable ftp2.de.debian.org
500 testing www.debian-multimedia.org
500 testing security.debian.org
500 testing ftp2.de.debian.org
500 stable-updates ftp2.de.debian.org
500 stable ftp2.de.debian.org
1 experimental www.debian-multimedia.org
1 experimental ftp2.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-===============
libbz2-1.0 | 1.0.6-1
libc6 (>= 2.8) | 2.13-32
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.7.0-9
libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) | 4.7.0-9
zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3) | 1:1.2.7.dfsg-11
Package's Recommends field is empty.
Package's Suggests field is empty.
# aptitude update
.....
Fetched 10.2 kB in 4s (2,124 B/s)
[100%] Reading package listsSegmentation fault (core dumped)
# gdb aptitude
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/aptitude...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/97/69b4c55215260a64d888e5305fe18d45a0df27.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) core-file core
[New LWP 24619]
warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `aptitude update'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0 0xb72c8461 in debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo(pkgCache::PkgFileIterator&, FileFd&, std::string) ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(gdb) backtrace
#0 0xb72c8461 in debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo(pkgCache::PkgFileIterator&, FileFd&, std::string) ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#1 0xb72e470d in debPackagesIndex::Merge(pkgCacheGenerator&, OpProgress*) const ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#2 0xb7284879 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#3 0xb7287801 in pkgCacheGenerator::MakeStatusCache(pkgSourceList&, OpProgress*, MMap**, bool) ()
from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#4 0xb727ddb2 in pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches(OpProgress*, bool) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
#5 0xb756a896 in download_update_manager::finish (this=0xbfb67d1c, res=pkgAcquire::Continue, progress=0xb7e61944,
k=...) at ../../../../src/generic/apt/download_update_manager.cc:175
#6 0xb74e861a in cmdline_do_download (m=0xbfb67d1c, verbose=0, term_input=..., term_locale=..., term_metrics=...,
term_output=...) at ../../../src/cmdline/cmdline_util.cc:471
#7 0xb74e49ab in cmdline_update (argc=1, argv=0xbfb681f8, verbose=30408703)
at ../../../src/cmdline/cmdline_update.cc:67
#8 0xb73ab34f in main (argc=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0xb4956898>,
argv=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0xb495689c>) at ../../src/main.cc:1114
(gdb) quit
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