packgekit crash soon after install bcmwl-kernel-source from additional drivers

[Lyn Perrine]

To reproduce was on a live session of lubuntu yakkety yak. I opened the additonal drivers tab of software and updates and installed bcmwl kernel source so I could remove my bulky usb one for the rest of the live session then apport appeared saying packegkit has crashed.

Description: Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (development branch)
Release: 16.10

packagekit:
  Installed: 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected the driver to install with nothing crashing. Instead this had a crash and apport came up.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: packagekit 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Sat Aug 13 18:44:13 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160813)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/sh
SegvAnalysis: Skipped: missing required field "Disassembly"
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: packagekit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __cxxabiv1::__dynamic_cast (src_ptr=0x0, src_type=src_type@entry=0x7f4dd8d23b00 <typeinfo for pkgSystem>, dst_type=0x7f4dd8d22998 <typeinfo for debSystem>, src2dst=src2dst@entry=0) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/dyncast.cc:50
 pkgSystem::ArchitecturesSupported[abi:cxx11]() const (this=<optimized out>) at /build/apt-ofcAsA/apt-1.3~rc1ubuntu2/apt-pkg/pkgsystem.cc:69
 APT::Configuration::getArchitectures[abi:cxx11](bool const&) (Cached=<optimized out>) at /build/apt-ofcAsA/apt-1.3~rc1ubuntu2/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc:326
 ?? ()
 ?? ()

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This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1612978