aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a1d4d10 ***

[Cameron Suen]

Binary package hint: aptitude

Release: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
I was installing libcups2-dev by using aptitude then. The message suddenly came up when ldconfig deferred processing was taking place. I then tried again to install another package (libcups2-dev) and the message came up again. However, the two packages seem to be perfectly installed.

======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0x6b581)[0x672581]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0x6cdd8)[0x673dd8]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0x676ebd]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0x54d741]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdaPv+0x1d)[0x54d79d]
aptitude[0x81693bf]
aptitude[0x81872dd]
aptitude[0x8183512]
aptitude[0x81492a0]
aptitude[0x8120f94]
aptitude[0x805f2af]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x61dbd6]
aptitude[0x805c6a1]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-001d7000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 788002 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8.0
001d7000-001d9000 r--p 000c6000 08:06 788002 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8.0
001d9000-001da000 rw-p 000c8000 08:06 788002 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8.0
001da000-001dc000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790739 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.11.1.so
001dc000-001dd000 r--p 00001000 08:06 790739 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.11.1.so
001dd000-001de000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 790739 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.11.1.so
001de000-001e0000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790723 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so
001e0000-001e1000 r--p 00001000 08:06 790723 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so
001e1000-001e2000 rw-p 00002000 08:06 790723 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so
001e2000-001ea000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790731 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.11.1.so
001ea000-001eb000 r--p 00007000 08:06 790731 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.11.1.so
001eb000-001ec000 rw-p 00008000 08:06 790731 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.11.1.so
002bd000-00376000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790801 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
00376000-00377000 ---p 000b9000 08:06 790801 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
00377000-0037a000 r--p 000b9000 08:06 790801 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
0037a000-0037b000 rw-p 000bc000 08:06 790801 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
0044f000-0048f000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790967 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
0048f000-00491000 r--p 00040000 08:06 790967 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
00491000-00492000 rw-p 00042000 08:06 790967 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
00492000-0057b000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 785154 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
0057b000-0057c000 ---p 000e9000 08:06 785154 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
0057c000-00580000 r--p 000e9000 08:06 785154 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
00580000-00581000 rw-p 000ed000 08:06 785154 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
00581000-00588000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
00596000-00605000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790821 /usr/lib/libept.so.0.5.30
00605000-00606000 r--p 0006f000 08:06 790821 /usr/lib/libept.so.0.5.30
00606000-00607000 rw-p 00070000 08:06 790821 /usr/lib/libept.so.0.5.30
00607000-0075a000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790720 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
0075a000-0075b000 ---p 00153000 08:06 790720 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
0075b000-0075d000 r--p 00153000 08:06 790720 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
0075d000-0075e000 rw-p 00155000 08:06 790720 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
0075e000-00761000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
0076d000-00773000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790727 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.11.1.so
00773000-00774000 r--p 00006000 08:06 790727 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.11.1.so
00774000-00775000 rw-p 00007000 08:06 790727 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.11.1.so
007ce000-007e1000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790726 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.11.1.so
007e1000-007e2000 r--p 00012000 08:06 790726 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.11.1.so
007e2000-007e3000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 790726 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.11.1.so
007e3000-007e5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
007f1000-0080e000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 784178 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0080e000-0080f000 r--p 0001c000 08:06 784178 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0080f000-00810000 rw-p 0001d000 08:06 784178 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0085c000-00877000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 784600 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
00877000-00878000 r--p 0001a000 08:06 784600 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
00878000-00879000 rw-p 0001b000 08:06 784600 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
00b54000-00b5e000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790729 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.11.1.so
00b5e000-00b5f000 r--p 00009000 08:06 790729 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.11.1.so
00b5f000-00b60000 rw-p 0000a000 08:06 790729 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.11.1.so
00b78000-00cc0000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 791167 /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15.6.9
00cc0000-00cc3000 r--p 00147000 08:06 791167 /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15.6.9
00cc3000-00cc4000 rw-p 0014a000 08:06 791167 /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15.6.9
00ce3000-00ce4000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
00d1a000-00d2f000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790734 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so
00d2f000-00d30000 r--p 00014000 08:06 790734 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so
00d30000-00d31000 rw-p 00015000 08:06 790734 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so
00d31000-00d33000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
00d52000-00d65000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 787785 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
00d65000-00d66000 r--p 00012000 08:06 787785 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
00d66000-00d67000 rw-p 00013000 08:06 787785 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
00ede000-00f02000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 790724 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so
00f02000-00f03000 r--p 00023000 08:06 790724 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so
00f03000-00f04000 rw-p 00024000 08:06 790724 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so
00f40000-00f45000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 791085 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
00f45000-00f46000 r--p 00004000 08:06 791085 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
00f46000-00f47000 rw-p 00005000 08:06 791085 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
08048000-08251000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 788332 /usr/bin/aptitude
08251000-08252000 r--p 00208000 08:06 788332 /usr/bin/aptitude
08252000-08253000 rw-p 00209000 08:06 788332 /usr/bin/aptitude
08253000-08255000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
09890000-09b7b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
b58d8000-b594d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b594d000-b594e000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
b594e000-b614e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b631a000-b631b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7500000-b7521000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7521000-b7600000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
b7617000-b7618000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7618000-b7657000 r--p 00000000 08:06 794263 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_CTYPE
b7657000-b7658000 r--p 00000000 08:06 794264 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_NUMERIC
b7658000-b7659000 r--p 00000000 08:06 816509 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_TIME
b7659000-b7777000 r--p 00000000 08:06 794252 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_COLLATE
b7777000-b777c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b777c000-b777d000 r--p 00000000 08:06 839113 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_MONETARY
b777d000-b777e000 r--p 00000000 08:06 816516 /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGESAborted (core dumped

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a1d4d10 ***
Date: Thu Apr 1 11:29:56 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
ProcCmdline: aptitude install libcups2-dev
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 LANGUAGE=en
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a1d4d10 ***
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