Crashed when triggerred from initramfs, had to uninstall it to make progress.
Reinstalled and running it manually shows no crashes but an assertion:
(appstreamcli:5869): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:01:51.409: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'g_atomic_int_get (arc) > 0' failed
AppStream cache update completed successfully
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: appstream 0.12.0-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.17.0-7.8-generic 4.17.12
Uname: Linux 4.17.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sat Aug 18 21:19:53 2018
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/appstreamcli
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-02 (259 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
ProcCmdline: appstreamcli refresh-cache
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: appstream
StacktraceTop:
g_variant_new_parsed_va () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
g_variant_builder_add_parsed () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
() at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream.so.4
() at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream.so.4
as_cache_file_save () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libappstream.so.4
Title: appstreamcli crashed with signal 5 in g_variant_new_parsed_va()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-08-07 (11 days ago)
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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1787774, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.