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update-notifier package

apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg()

Bug #354872 reported by Fernando Miguel on 2009-04-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #119707: Apt crashes with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg() on corrupted pkgcache.bin. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 63 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-notifier (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-notifier

i opened update-manager to check for updates.
after i press the Install button, i got this crash

$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:0.111.1
  Candidate: 1:0.111.1
  Version table:
*** 1:0.111.1 0
        500 ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt jaunty/main Packages
        500 ftp://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt_check.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-notifier-common 0.76.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
pkgCache::FindPkg ()
pkgCacheGenerator::NewPackage ()
pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends ()
debListParser::ParseDepends ()
debListParser::NewVersion ()
Title: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgCache::FindPkg()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom davfs2 dialout dip fax floppy fuse kvm lpadmin nagios netdev plugdev polkituser sambashare scanner sudo sys syslog tape users video voice www-data

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Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel) wrote on 2009-04-04:

Dependencies.txt Edit (917 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (833 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-04-04: Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (11.6 KiB, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:pkgCache::FindPkg (this=0x7fffd827adf8,
pkgCacheGenerator::NewPackage (this=0x7fffd827ad20,
pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser::NewDepends (
debListParser::ParseDepends (this=0x7fffd827a220,
debListParser::NewVersion (this=0x7fffd827a220, Ver=