Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 Severity: important apt-get segfaults w/out (in my opinion) any reason:
# apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.2.17 Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% # apt-get install gcc Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% # apt-get update Hit http://debian.jones.dk woody/misc Packages [...] Hit ftp://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation faulty Tree... 50% Reboot and update from kernel version 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 didn't help. Strange thing is: AFAIR the last update of the apt-package is some time ago. But I never had any problems lately!? Maybe this helps: # gdb apt-get GNU gdb 5.0 [...] (gdb) run install gcc Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install gcc (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... Reading Package Lists... Done (no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x4006ccbd in pkgDepCache::CheckDep () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.2.7 (gdb) -jojo -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux tobi 2.4.1 #1 Wed Jan 31 16:06:56 CET 2001 i686 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
