Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: important After a recent dist-upgrade, which succeeded, subsequent apt-get install/upgrade/dist-upgrade operations fail with a segmentation fault.
cyclops:/var/cache/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: python-htmlgen python2.2-htmlgen 15 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 8246kB of archives. After unpacking 319kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://192.168.1.16 sid/main debconf 1.2.34 [139kB] Segmentation fault (core dumped) gdb backtrace on the core file shows: (gdb) bt #0 0x40083225 in pkgAcquireStatus::Pulse () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2 #1 0x08064237 in strcpy () #2 0x4008181a in pkgAcquire::Run () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2 #3 0x08051b9c in strcpy () #4 0x0805a9a1 in strcpy () #5 0x4005f31a in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2.so.3.2 #6 0x08063610 in strcpy () #7 0x40175a51 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 strace of the program ends in: select(14, [13], [], NULL, {0, 500000}) = 1 (in [13], left {0, 500000}) read(13, "102 Status\nURI: http://192.168.1";..., 4000) = 271 select(14, [13], [], NULL, {0, 500000}) = 1 (in [13], left {0, 500000}) read(13, "102 Status\nURI: http://192.168.1";..., 4000) = 118 select(14, [13], [], NULL, {0, 500000}) = 1 (in [13], left {0, 390000}) read(13, "200 URI Start\nURI: http://192.16";..., 4000) = 153 Get:1 http://192.168.1.16 sid/main debconf 1.2.34 [139kB] ) = 72 stat64("/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/debconf_1.2.34_all.deb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=116176, ...}) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ As suggested in other bug reports, I renamed /var/cache/apt/*.bin to /var/cache/apt/*.bin.bak and reran the above commands and there was no change. (It still segfaulted.) Eric
