apt-check crashed with signal 7 in strlen()

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Binary package hint: update-notifier

When this crash happened, I was running the following command in a root shell:

dselect update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade ; apt-get clean

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: update-notifier 0.71.8 [modified: usr/bin/update-notifier]
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcEnviron:
 LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/User Name/local/linux/bin:.:/home/User Name/local/share/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 7
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
 debPackagesIndex::FindInCache ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.8-6.so.4.6
 pkgMakeStatusCache ()
Title: apt-check crashed with signal 7 in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-8-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm lpadmin plugdev pulse-rt scanner staff video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Is this crash reproducible? Unfortunately apport was not able to get a good backtrace.

[Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud)]

Unfortunately, no.