Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: normal Tags: lfs Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? disk failure caused corrupted files including /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? A complete reinstall of the relevant binary packages did nothing to stop segfaults on startup (including libc) but removal of the pkgstates package restored aptitude to a functional state. This is a very minor security issue. Sorry for the largefile flag (unrelated bug in reportbug-gtk). -- Package-specific info: Terminal: screen $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.7 Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170415 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.1 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.1 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 (0xb770d000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0xb70e9000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb70b4000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7091000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7089000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb6f86000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6e6d000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0xb6e55000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0xb6e3a000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0xb6e33000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.30 (0xb6c09000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6bec000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6a72000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb6a1d000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb69ff000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb6847000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xb6842000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xb682a000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb680f000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb67fd000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb67cf000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xb67bc000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xb67b3000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb67ad000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb770f000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.8 ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-5 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii libxapian30 1.4.3-2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9+deb9u1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.39 -- no debconf information