synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

Bug #348234 reported by leonardinux
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

simply crash after notify-osd installation.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.62.5ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 52428837 --update-at-startup
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 pkgIndexFile::Type::GetType ()
 pkgRecords::pkgRecords ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

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leonardinux (leonardinux) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic stack trace

StacktraceTop:strcmp () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/strcmp.S:40
pkgIndexFile::Type::GetType (Type=0x0) at indexfile.cc:39
pkgRecords (this=0x9f534e8, Cache=@0x9ea6380)
RPackageLister::openCache (this=0x9bba608)
RGMainWindow::cbUpdateClicked (self=0x0, data=0x9b536c0)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Symbolic threaded stack trace
Changed in synaptic:
importance: Undecided → Medium
visibility: private → public
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Michael Vogt (mvo)
affects: synaptic (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu)
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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

This is likely an invalid cache file (PkgFileIterator::IndexType() shouldn't normally return NULL) Marking as duplicate.

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