Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: grave Any package using libapt-pkg segfaults at the "building dependency tree" step.
arrakis:~# apt-get update [snip] Reading Package Lists... Done Segmentation fault (core dumped) arrakis:~# aptitude Building Dependency Tree: 0%Segmentation fault (core dumped) It does the same for gnome-apt or deity. Here is the state of the stack for apt-get update at the time of the segfault : (gdb) bt #0 0x4006de1f in pkgDepCache::Init () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1 #1 0x4008f8f9 in pkgCacheFile::Open () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1 #2 0x8056137 in strcpy () #3 0x40061e9e in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.1 #4 0x8061b33 in strcpy () #5 0x401762eb in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 Oops... not really cool. -- Josselin Mouette
