Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important (It's a subtle bug, but it still segfaults, so I'm filing it as important.)
[fbriere] k7:~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Segmentation fault After doing what I could with gdb (it doesn't seem to like C++ too much), I determined that the segfault occured at apt-get.cc:361. Turns out I is NULL there. Digging further, I went back to apt-get.cc:1225, in DoUpgrade. After calling OpenForInstall on Cache, the first three elements (Cache[0..2]) are NULLs. The other 13000-something are okay. I can't tell whether the problem is with "apt-get update" writing junk in the cache, or with "apt-get upgrade" not reading it properly, but there we are. I tried flushing /var/lib/apt and /var/cache/apt, but to no avail. (Actually, it's not true; I've had it work once or twice. Then I do it again, and it fails. Don't ask me why.) I've taken backups of both directories, in case this bugs goes away with the next daily update. About 10MiB in total; I'd be glad to provide them if you wish to investigate. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux k7 2.4.18 #1 Thu Jul 4 15:58:11 EDT 2002 i686 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
