apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in _strstrip()

[Michael Bienia]

Binary package hint: apt

Happened on updating dpkg to 1.14.5ubuntu13.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 18 17:53:35 2007
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5ubuntu3
 libstdc++6 4.2.1-5ubuntu3
 gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-5ubuntu3
 libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu4
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-get
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: apt 0.7.6ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: apt-get upgrade
ProcCwd: /home/michael
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: apt
StacktraceTop:
 _strstrip () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
 pkgDPkgPM::ProcessDpkgStatusLine () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
 pkgDPkgPM::DoDpkgStatusFd () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
 pkgDPkgPM::Go () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
 pkgPackageManager::DoInstallPostFork () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5
Title: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in _strstrip()
Uname: Linux vorlon 2.6.22-11-generic #1 SMP Fri Sep 7 04:31:16 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:pkgDPkgPM::ProcessDpkgStatusLine (this=0x6c7d00, OutStatusFd=-1, line=0x6c7d28 "processing") at deb/dpkgpm.cc:397
pkgDPkgPM::DoDpkgStatusFd (this=0x6c7d00, statusfd=<value optimized out>, OutStatusFd=-1) at deb/dpkgpm.cc:482
pkgDPkgPM::Go (this=0x6c7d00, OutStatusFd=-1) at deb/dpkgpm.cc:862
pkgPackageManager::DoInstallPostFork (this=0x6c7d00, statusFd=-1) at packagemanager.cc:636
InstallPackages (Cache=<value optimized out>, ShwKept=<value optimized out>, Ask=true, Safety=true) at apt-get.cc:1016

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed with the apt 0.7.6ubuntu10 upload