packagekitd crashed with SIGSEGV in __cxxabiv1::__dynamic_cast()

[Carl Godfrey]

Error occurs immediately after login.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: packagekit 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-33.52-generic 4.4.15
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Aug 9 18:52:01 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-07 (246 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/sh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fc645055bb0 <__dynamic_cast+32>: mov (%rdi),%rax
 PC (0x7fc645055bb0) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: packagekit
StacktraceTop:
 __dynamic_cast () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 pkgSystem::ArchitecturesSupported[abi:cxx11]() const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
 APT::Configuration::getArchitectures[abi:cxx11](bool const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
 pk_backend_get_filters () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_aptcc.so
 pk_engine_load_backend ()
Title: packagekitd crashed with SIGSEGV in __dynamic_cast()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 __cxxabiv1::__dynamic_cast (src_ptr=0x0, src_type=src_type@entry=0x7fc645aeab40 <typeinfo for pkgSystem>, dst_type=0x7fc645ae99d8 <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-aerrAP/apt-1.3~pre3/apt-pkg/pkgsystem.cc:69
 APT::Configuration::getArchitectures[abi:cxx11](bool const&) (Cached=<optimized out>) at /build/apt-aerrAP/apt-1.3~pre3/apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc:326
 ?? ()
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.