Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:49:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com was heard to say: Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: I have no idea what's causing these symptoms. A backtrace from an affected system (or maybe a state snapshot generated by aptitude-create-state-bundle) would be helpful. Thanks, Daniel. I happened to run aptitude-create-state-bundle before I fixed the problem by running apt-get -f install twice. No backtraces at this time, sorry. http://www.newt.com/tmp/aptitude-537541.bz2 Let me know if you'd like to see another snapshot made now for comparison. It sounds from your comments on debian-user like your problem was just bad RAM, and just to confirm that, I can't reproduce it with this snapshot. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault
Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:49:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com was heard to say: Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: I have no idea what's causing these symptoms. A backtrace from an affected system (or maybe a state snapshot generated by aptitude-create-state-bundle) would be helpful. Thanks, Daniel. I happened to run aptitude-create-state-bundle before I fixed the problem by running apt-get -f install twice. No backtraces at this time, sorry. http://www.newt.com/tmp/aptitude-537541.bz2 Let me know if you'd like to see another snapshot made now for comparison. It sounds from your comments on debian-user like your problem was just bad RAM, and just to confirm that, I can't reproduce it with this snapshot. Thanks. Given that the problem doesn't appear for David when he uses strace, maybe he's got bad memory too! David, maybe you confirm this by installing and running memtest86+. I found I had to run update-grub after installing it. Then just reboot and select it from the grub menu. Easy. -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:51:06PM -0700, Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com was heard to say: Any ideas on how I got into this situation? The only unusual thing I did was uninstall some packages that were recommended after selecting blueman for installation in aptitude. This was mostly just python-all-dev, I think, which just wanted to install python 2.4 which seems unnecessary since python 2.5 is installed. I have no idea what's causing these symptoms. A backtrace from an affected system (or maybe a state snapshot generated by aptitude-create-state-bundle) would be helpful. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault
Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: I have no idea what's causing these symptoms. A backtrace from an affected system (or maybe a state snapshot generated by aptitude-create-state-bundle) would be helpful. Thanks, Daniel. I happened to run aptitude-create-state-bundle before I fixed the problem by running apt-get -f install twice. No backtraces at this time, sorry. http://www.newt.com/tmp/aptitude-537541.bz2 Let me know if you'd like to see another snapshot made now for comparison. -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault on start up (on armel)
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable aptitude segmentation faults on start up, as root or normal user, on my armel machine. apt-get and other apt utilities seem fine. Weirdly when I use strace I no longer get the segmentation fault and aptitude will run. da...@thaney:~$ strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_user.out aptitude update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? da...@thaney:~$ aptitude update Segmentation fault da...@thaney:~$ su - Password: thaney:~# apt-get -q -q update ; apt-get -q -q upgrade thaney:~# aptitude -q -q update ; Segmentation fault thaney:~# strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_root.out aptitude -q -q update ; Reading package lists... thaney:~# strace -o /tmp/strace_aptitude_root.out aptitude -q -q safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... thaney:~# aptitude -q -q safe-upgrade Segmentation fault Not sure what else I can provide to be useful Good (bug) hunting! David -- Package-specific info: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 = /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x40026000) libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x400d8000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x4011a000) libcwidget.so.3 = /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x40126000) libept.so.0 = /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x401de000) libxapian.so.15 = /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x4024f000) libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40391000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x403ad000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x403cb000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x404a6000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40553000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40567000) libutil.so.1 = /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x4068f000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4069a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.3 (0x4000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY not set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-orion5x Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget30.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept00.5.22High-level library for managing De ii libgcc11:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian151.0.7-4 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do none (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl none (no description available) Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags none (no description available) ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 Severity: normal I'm seeing the same problem too after installing some software from sid. Would love some advice on how to recover! Here's a message I just sent to debian-user: After making the following changes to pull in sid's bluez 4.0 package in a lenny system, I'm now getting segmentation faults when I run dpkg and aptitude. Any thoughts on how to recover from this? For example: $ sudo aptitude update Segmentation fault Here are some messages from /var/log/syslog: Jul 19 13:47:38 olgas kernel: [ 1791.378162] apt-listchanges[11214]: segfault at 800 ip 00446702 sp 7fff1eb16f90 error 4 in python2.5[40+125000] Jul 19 13:47:38 olgas kernel: [ 1791.523514] apt-listchanges[11216]: segfault at 1731670 ip 004d5f08 sp 7fff8060fe80 error 4 in python2.5[40+125000] Jul 19 13:47:41 olgas kernel: [ 1794.964660] dpkg[11230]: segfault at 2008 ip 0040b0c4 sp 7fff02c49040 error 4 in dpkg[40+61000] Jul 19 13:48:22 olgas kernel: [ 1835.600343] aptitude[11320]: segfault at 118 ip 00538150 sp 7fff40c13fa0 error 4 in aptitude[40+22a000] Jul 19 13:53:06 olgas kernel: [ 2119.972216] aptitude[11630]: segfault at 7f4e555e428c ip 7f38c73a3517 sp 7fffcf840c10 error 4 in libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6.0[7f38c7365000+bd000] Here's a trimmed excerpt from /var/log/aptitude: Aptitude 0.4.11.11: log report Sun, Jul 19 2009 12:33:18 -0700 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libbluetooth3 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libnl1 [INSTALL] bluez [UPGRADE] bluez-utils 3.36-3 - 4.42-2 Aptitude 0.4.11.11: log report Sun, Jul 19 2009 12:51:29 -0700 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] consolekit [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libck-connector0 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libpam-ck-connector [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libpolkit-dbus2 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libpolkit-gnome0 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libpolkit-grant2 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libpolkit2 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libxcb-atom1 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libxcb-aux0 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libxcb-event1 [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] obex-data-server [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] policykit [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] policykit-gnome [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] python-pyrex [REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] bluez-gnome [REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] libxcb-xlib0 [REMOVE, DEPENDENCIES] libxcb-xlib0-dev [INSTALL] blueman [UPGRADE] libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 - 0.10-1 [UPGRADE] libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 - 2:1.2.1-1 [UPGRADE] libx11-dev 2:1.1.5-2 - 2:1.2.1-1 [UPGRADE] libxcb1 1.1-1.2 - 1.3-2 [UPGRADE] libxcb1-dev 1.1-1.2 - 1.3-2 -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Dec 5 2008 09:06:14 Compiler: g++ 4.3.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.6.0 NCurses version 5.6 libsigc++ version: 2.0.18 Ept support enabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213 cwidget version: 0.5.12 Apt version: 4.6.0 linux-vdso.so.1 = (0x7fff89bff000) libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 = /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 (0x7f96815a3000) libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x7f9681358000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 = /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x7f9681153000) libcwidget.so.3 = /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x7f9680e8) libept.so.0 = /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x7f9680c07000) libxapian.so.15 = /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x7f968089d000) libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x7f9680686000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f968046a000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7f968015e000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x7f967fedb000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7f967fcc4000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f967f971000) libutil.so.1 = /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x7f967f76e000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x7f967f56a000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f9681864000) $TERM not set. $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (600, 'stable'), (80, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget30.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept00.5.22High-level library for managing De ii libgcc11:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for
Bug#537541: aptitude: segmentation fault
Most excellent! I found a workaround. First run apt-get -f install and get the segmentation fault again: $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Segmentation fault However, run it again, and smile when you don't see the segmentation fault! $ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Indeed, I can now continue on with what I was doing with aptitude: $ sudo aptitude install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: bluez-compat [4.42-2] 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/80.3kB of archives. After unpacking 242kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Phew! Any ideas on how I got into this situation? The only unusual thing I did was uninstall some packages that were recommended after selecting blueman for installation in aptitude. This was mostly just python-all-dev, I think, which just wanted to install python 2.4 which seems unnecessary since python 2.5 is installed. -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
