This bug appears to be in apt in fact. Here is what happens when I run apt-get under gdb:
(gdb) run install linux-image-2.6.17-10-386 Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install linux-image-2.6.17-10-386 (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7ea1593 in pkgCache::VerIterator::Downloadable () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51 (gdb) where #0 0xb7ea1593 in pkgCache::VerIterator::Downloadable () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51 #1 0xb7eb646b in pkgProblemResolver::MakeScores () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51 #2 0xb7eb715a in pkgProblemResolver::Resolve () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51 #3 0x0805f1b7 in ?? () #4 0xb7e9471b in CommandLine::DispatchArg () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51 #5 0x0804e63b in ?? () #6 0xb7c1bebc in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0x0804ca31 in ?? () ** Changed in: python-defaults (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: python-defaults => apt -- crash during package update https://launchpad.net/bugs/76470 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
