The cache is mmap()ed, it becomes part of the programs memory space. Such crashes happen very very very very very very very very rarely. They can only happen if the cache was not completely written, i.e. power loss during update, filesystem bug, hardware bug. Sometimes, they might be caused by apt issues, but that's probably less than 0.01% of the cases.
Adding the extra checks is a matter of minutes, but it might take some months until we do this, as they require an ABI break. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/16467 Title: [MASTER] aptitude/apt-get segmentation fault on currupted cache -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
