Package: libapt-pkg4.12 Version: 0.9.9.4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Attempting to use aptitude or apt recently caused both programs to segfault during startup, (normal user, or root). GDB indicate sthe problem lies within the pkgCache handling. pkgCache::DepIterator::IsIgnorable(pkgCache::PrvIterator const&) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7af369c in pkgCache::DepIterator::IsIgnorable(pkgCache::PrvIterator const&) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 #1 0x00007ffff7af7175 in pkgDepCache::CheckDep(pkgCache::DepIterator, int, pkgCache::PkgIterator&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 #2 0x00007ffff7af7be8 in pkgDepCache::DependencyState(pkgCache::DepIterator&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 #3 0x00007ffff7afff0b in pkgDepCache::Update(OpProgress*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 #4 0x00007ffff7b0043e in pkgDepCache::Init(OpProgress*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 Examining with strace, I found that the program was crashing after opening the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/autopkgtest.list. Removing this file prevented the crash. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libapt-pkg4.12 depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-5 ii libc6 2.17-92 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2 ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2 ii multiarch-support 2.17-92 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1 libapt-pkg4.12 recommends no packages. libapt-pkg4.12 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
deb file:///tmp/tmp.OHeFkZC10D/binaries/ /