clone 535190 -1
reassign -1 apt
retitle -1 apt-get / aptitude segfault when Cache-Limit is too small
thanks
Jan-Hendrik Palic <pa...@billgotchy.de> writes:
> Package: ia32-apt-get
> Version: 17
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hi,
>
> installing ia32-apt-get and run apt-get update leads to
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Ignoring
> ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
> Ignoring
> ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
> Ignoring
> ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_non-free_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
> Ignoring
> www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages.IndexDiff
> Ignoring www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-en%5fUS
> Merging ...
> /usr/bin/apt-get: line 46: 712 Segmentation fault apt-get.real
> --no-list-cleanup --no-download update
>
> After setting APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; into
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00ia32-libs-tools, apt-get update works again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan
You are the 3rd person now that has run into this problem. There seems
to be some bug in libapt that causes a buffer oveflow in the cache and
a segfault instead of a message that the Cache-Limit needs to be
increased. At least that is what I guess.
MfG
Goswin
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