Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important If /etc/apt/sources.list is unreadable (mode 0600 in my case), then apt-cache segfaults. This means that it always works for root, but may segfault when run as a normal user. Looking at the other bug reports for apt, it seems that apt-cache is VERY flaky when it has trouble reading from files, usually just segfaulting without printing any useful error message.
Even an strace on apt-cache didn't really help, as apt-cache proceeded much further beyond its initial failure to open sources.list before dying. I saw a similar bug related to the pkgcache files, which may be the same bug as this, but the description mentioned nothing of sources.list so I thought I'd add this to the myriad list of bugs attributed to apt -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux xiao 2.4.17-xfs #2 SMP Mon Feb 4 22:20:50 GMT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** NOTE ** new email address
