Bug#810622: apt: "apt search something" segfaults

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

Um 22:48 Uhr am 10.01.16 schrieb Julian Andres Klode:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 05:43:14PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> Package: apt
>> Version: 1.1.10
>> Severity: normal

>> Doing "apt search something" segfaults. Here is the outout from gdb bt
>> full:
 
> I can't reproduce this with 1.2~exp1 and neither with 1.1.10. 

I can reproduce this on all my Sid systems, both i386 and amd64 but not on 
an armhf system (RPi2, but this one has a slightly different configuration 
than the other ones).
 
> Could you try running it with -o Dir::Cache=/nonexisting/ (assuming /nonexisting/
> does not exist on your system). This would rule out an invalid cache, although
> it seems unlikely that there would be an incorrect cache that still validates
> correctly with the checksum in it.

Still segfaults as well.

> If you can reproduce it, it would be great to have a copy of 
> /var/lib/apt and /var/lib/dpkg/status to debug this further.

I will send the tar via private mail.

Grüße,
Sven.