[apport] apt-check crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer()

Bug #103460 reported by Aurel Branzeanu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-notifier

update-notifier crashed after unsuccessfull attempt to update language module for OpenOffice 2.20

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 5 23:33:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-notifier 0.56.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcCwd: /home/thunder
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
 pkgPolicy::GetCandidateVer ()
 pkgDepCache::Init ()
 pkgCacheFile::Open ()
 TmpGetCache ()
 PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
Uname: Linux thunder-mobile 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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Aurel Branzeanu (thunder-riscom) wrote :
Changed in update-notifier:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:pkgDepCache::Init (this=0x82a53d8, Prog=0xbfb4325c) at ../build/include/apt-pkg/depcache.h:339
pkgCacheFile::Open (this=0x82a66e0, Progress=@0xbfb4325c, WithLock=false) at cachefile.cc:105
TmpGetCache () from /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt_pkg.so
PyEval_EvalFrameEx (f=0x81a0b64, throwflag=0) at ../Python/ceval.c:3564

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
affects: python-apt (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu)
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

The objects seem to be correct, so that's likely an invalid cache file. Closing, as this just clutters up the bug list.

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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tdn (spam-thomasdamgaard) wrote :

If the cause of the crash is an invalid cache file, then this is still a valid bug. Maybe it should just be fixed elsewhere. I see two possible places:
1: The root cause is that the cache file has become corrupt -- so whatever made it corrupt should be fixed.
2: There should be some functionality (either manually or automatically) to clear the cache so that the crash does not occur. Appearently there were no way for the user to clear the cache and thus stop apt from crashing. apt-get clean did not do the trick.

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