Thanks for your bug report. This might be fixed in the meantime. If you can still reproduce it in wily, please re-open.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/981360 Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewProvides() Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Synaptics crashed after doing a reload of the repo from the toolbar and download of the repo info. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: synaptic 0.75.9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Apr 14 12:25:32 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_HK.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_HK:en PATH=(custom, no user) SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7f608fcf43d0 <_ZN17pkgCacheGenerator10ListParser11NewProvidesERN8pkgCache11VerIteratorERKSsS5_S5_+864>: mov %eax,0x8(%rbx) PC (0x7f608fcf43d0) ok source "%eax" ok destination "0x8(%rbx)" (0x7f6073d7ee50) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)! SegvReason: writing unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: synaptic StacktraceTop: pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewProvides(pkgCache::VerIterator&, std::string const&, std::string const&, std::string const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 debListParser::NewProvidesAllArch(pkgCache::VerIterator&, std::string const&, std::string const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 debListParser::ParseProvides(pkgCache::VerIterator&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 debListParser::NewVersion(pkgCache::VerIterator&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 pkgCacheGenerator::MergeListVersion(pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser&, pkgCache::PkgIterator&, std::string const&, pkgCache::VerIterator*&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewProvides() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/981360/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp