Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important Hi. I'm finding apt-get, apt-cache, etc crash for no apparent reason.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-cache stats Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get dselect-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. A copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/status which generates this problem can be found at http://people.debian.org/~bab/bugs/status.breaks . Here's the weird thing. Take the five lines describing kernel-image-2.4.13-586 (lines 55710-55714) and move them to the very bottom of the status file. Then everything works perfectly. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-cache stats Total Package Names : 10322 (413k) (etc etc) I've put this up at http://people.debian.org/~bab/bugs/status.good . I see nothing wrong with the kernel-image-2.4.13-586 lines. Also, dpkg --status kernel-image-2.4.13-586 works perfectly with both the bad and the good status file. Ben. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux espresso 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.4-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
