error message after installing of ubufox in U-9.10

Bug #453986 reported by Wladi
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apt (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

I installed today Ubintu 9.10 from a dayli build image (alternate). Then i upgraded installed software and installed abiword, filezilla... over software-center. After this i checked of missed recomendation over synaptic and found ubufox. During the installation i got a error message and startet bug-report.

With best regards

wladi

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 17 16:08:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt_check.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: update-notifier-common 0.90
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x4c8f1b <strlen+11>: cmp %ch,(%eax)
 PC (0x004c8f1b) ok
 source "%ch" ok
 destination "(%eax)" (0xb5f87fff) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList(pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser&, pkgCache::VerIterator*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
 debStatusIndex::Merge(pkgCacheGenerator&, OpProgress&) const
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
 pkgMakeStatusCache(pkgSourceList&, OpProgress&, MMap**, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8
Title: apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare tape video

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Wladi (wladimir-boger) wrote :
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Wladi (wladimir-boger) wrote :

If you need more infos or logs let me know.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in apt.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

affects: synaptic (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu)
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

sorry for the boilerplate message. This bug had a package associated with it but according to the stacktrace it was the wrong one.

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. Since you reported this against a development version of Ubuntu Karmic, we are closing this report. If this can be reproduced using the latest development version of Ubuntu Maverick, please comment and change the status to 'new' in the yellow line. Thanks again!

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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