Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: normal (note: recompiled for stable; same version works fine on other computer)
snoopy:~# chroot /nfsroot/potato/root/ snoopy:/# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Segmentation fault snoopy:/# gdb apt-get GNU gdb 19990928 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) set args upgradwe (gdb) set args upgrade (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... (no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400736af in pkgProblemResolver::MakeScores () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.1-3-2.so.3.1 (gdb) bt #0 0x400736af in pkgProblemResolver::MakeScores () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.1-3-2.so.3.1 #1 0x400756ad in pkgProblemResolver::ResolveByKeep () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.1-3-2.so.3.1 #2 0x40072fec in pkgAllUpgrade () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.1-3-2.so.3.1 #3 0x80572fb in strcpy () #4 0x40059d4a in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.1-3-2.so.3.1 #5 0x80619c0 in strcpy () #6 0x40163a52 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 Steps to try and fix (with no sucess): 1. upgrade from 0.5.0 to 0.5.3 2. try same image on different computers (NFS-Root). I think chroot should be most reliable. In any case I get the same error everywhere. 3. tried combinations of -s, install, and -d, but always get the same error. 4. created an /etc/apt/preferences file. Same as what is used on a working system: Package: autoconf Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: automake Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: libtool Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=potato Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release o=helix Pin-Priority: 700 Possibly something is currupt on this root directory, but I don't know what (everything looks OK to me), and even if that is the case, apt-get should not segfault. I think I saw something at one stage with apt-get from stable about the status file being currupt. I looked at that file, and it looks fine. Nor does dpkg have any problems accessing it. I can send it to you on request. However, I think it might be just a false lead. -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux snoopy 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 13:50:13 EST 2001 i686 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-13 The GNU stdc++ library
