Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.2-1
Severity: normal
I consider this pretty serious misbehavior, since it results in
aptitude taking action without a request to take action. However,
this only happens in peculiar circumstances, namely an X failure
killed my who X session.
I ran aptitude in a KDE terminal and hit u, U, and g (i.e., start
upgrade). It downloaded the debs, checked for bugs (I don't think
there were any) and showed me the changlog. It then asked (roughly)
Proceed with upgrade (Y/N)?
Since one of the upgrades involved the kernel I was running, and since
I had a long-running computation I didn't want to risk interruptings.
I did not respond.
Hours later I locked the screen (running KDE, launched from
KDE). After some time, another user switched to her existing session
on another virtual terminal. After a couple of minutes my original X
session, which was not on the screen, crashed. At that point,
aptitude apparently decided to proceed with the installation:
May 21 21:30:24 corn kernel: Xorg[7160]: segfault at 000001a4 eip
0818c49a esp bf98f9a0 error 4
The dpkg log shows action started shortly thereafter:
2008-05-21 21:30:37 startup archives unpack
2008-05-21 21:30:53 upgrade linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 2.6.24-6 2.6.24-7
2008-05-21 21:30:53 status half-configured linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 2.6.24-6
I speculate that aptitude either mishandled a signal to die or got
disoriented by the disappearance of the terminal it was in.
There are many possible culprits: X or KDE Terminal generated a bogus
character as X went down; apt-listchanges; apt; or any of the
libraries they depend on. Please reassign if appropriate.
Obviously it would be nice if X didn't crash, but this bug is about
how aptitude handles things when it does.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.2 compiled at Apr 12 2008 04:21:26
Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080308
cwidget version: 0.5.11
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7e80000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e44000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e3d000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d4d000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7cd5000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b62000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b4d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b35000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a47000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a22000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a15000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78c7000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78c3000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78be000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f6d000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.11 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.11-1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.17 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-3 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.5-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.11.2-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
-- no debconf information
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