Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.5.4-1 Followup-For: Bug #437445 Hi.
FWIW I experienced the same issue, having aptitude pending on CR after install in another terminal, if I launch another aptitude, I get : # aptitude install screen Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Segmentation fault and stracing -f it finishes with : open("/var/lock/aptitude", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0640) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) close(4) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ Process 14780 detached Hope this helps, -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.5 0.7.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070712-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]