Package: aptitude Version: 0.3.4-1 Severity: important Sequence of events: 1) run "aptitude dist-upgrade" 2) get informed that because of conflicts, it can't upgrade mozilla-thunderbird, press 'e' at "Accept this solution" prompt 3) Enter mozilla-thunderbird package, select later version of libpng12-0 (1.2.8rel-4), now lets me upgrade thunderbird to 1.0.7-1 4) Press 'g' at "resolve dependancies" screen, and accept the solution that's been created 5) segfault!
I rebuilt aptitude on my local machine to get a version with debug symbols, and was able to reproduce the same fault. Unfortunately, the terminal appears to have been messed up by the crash, and I can't just attach the text version of the stack. Instead, here's a screenshot of it... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (103, 'testing'), (102, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental'), (98, 'hoary'), (97, 'breezy') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.41 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.10-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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