Package: apt Version: 0.4.8 Severity: important Executing 'apt-cache search <regex>' (the search regex doesn't seem to matter) displays some results, but allocates all memory before completing. Needless to say, this used to work (yesterday, in fact). This happens even when I remove all sources from sources.list, so it appears to be triggered by my status file (available from http://people.debian.org/~mdz/temp/status). An strace is available at http://people.debian.org/~mdz/temp/apt-cache.strace. Here is a sample run with all sources uncommented:
mizar:[~] apt-cache search nls gcombust - GTK+ based CD mastering and burning program Segmentation fault and one with all of them commented out: mizar:[~] apt-cache search nls motifnls - Files needed to run some Motif applications. Segmentation fault (I ran these with lowered resource limits to avoid bringing my system to its knees) It is worth noting that 'apt-cache dump' and 'apt-cache dumpavail' both seem to work fine (as do apt-get install and apt-get remove, assuming I uncomment the entries in sources.list). I don't have a copy of my status file from yesterday, unfortunately; my status-old is from today and still exhibits the problem. A libc6 upgrade also happened in between, so it is possible that a change there triggered this, but I haven't had any problems with other programs as yet. I'll look into this some and send some more information. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mizar 2.4.0 #1 Sat Jan 6 09:34:06 EST 2001 i686 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library -- - mdz
