apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::compare()

[Dave Stroud]

Was doing a command line install in terminal.Install failed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: apt 1.3~rc2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 28 09:05:50 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-get
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-27 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160824.1)
ProcCmdline: apt-get update
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7fbe9c32f7f0 <__memcmp_sse4_1+3504>: mov -0x6(%rdi),%eax
 PC (0x7fbe9c32f7f0) ok
 source "-0x6(%rdi)" (0x616e69622f737070) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: apt
StacktraceTop:
 std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::compare(unsigned long, unsigned long, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 APT::String::Startswith(std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
 pkgAcquire::Worker::QueueItem(pkgAcquire::Queue::QItem*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
 pkgAcquire::Queue::Cycle() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
Title: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::compare()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 compare (__n=<optimized out>, __s2=<optimized out>, __s1=<optimized out>) at /build/gcc-6-nAv22z/gcc-6-6.2.0/build/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/char_traits.h:262
 std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::compare (this=<optimized out>, __pos=__pos@entry=0, __n=6, __str=...) at /build/gcc-6-nAv22z/gcc-6-6.2.0/build/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++-v3/include/bits/basic_string.tcc:1363
 APT::String::Startswith (s=..., start=...) at ./apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc:84
 pkgAcquire::Item::IsRedirectionLoop (this=0x5576b5242cd0, NewURI=...) at ./apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:1002
 pkgAcquire::Worker::QueueItem (this=0x5576b501dc00, Item=Item@entry=0x5576b52422e0) at ./apt-pkg/acquire-worker.cc:689

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

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[Expired for apt (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]