packagekitd crashed with SIGSEGV

[Heather Ellsworth]

I updated my focal system and rebooted. Shortly after logging in, I see that PackageKit crashed. Here is the systemctl log from the time that PackageKit started. Recording it here just in case it happens again.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: packagekit 1.1.13-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-12.15-generic 5.4.8
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu16
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 25 06:27:04 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-11 (141 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/sh
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: packagekit
StacktraceTop:
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.90
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.90
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.90
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.90
 () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.90
Title: packagekitd crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-01-17 (12 days ago)
UserGroups:

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StacktraceTop:
 pkgCacheGenerator::WriteStringInMap (String=..., this=0x7fa798c21240) at include/apt-pkg/string_view.h:111
 pkgCacheGenerator::NewGroup (this=0x7fa798c21240, Grp=..., Name=...) at ../apt-pkg/pkgcachegen.cc:560
 pkgCache::GrpIterator::GrpIterator (this=0x7fa798c21240) at include/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h:135
 debListParser::NewVersion (this=0x7fa784088400, Ver=...) at ../apt-pkg/deb/deblistparser.cc:214
 pkgCacheGenerator::MergeListVersion (this=0x7fa784095900, List=..., Pkg=..., Version=..., OutVer=@0x7fa798c213b8: 0x0) at include/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h:145

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's segfaulting in libapt-pkg's code, reassigning to apt