unattended-upgrade crashed with SIGSEGV in PyString_FromFormatV()

[Linus Hoppe]

Binary package hint: unattended-upgrades

crash shown by apport

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unattended-upgrades 0.62ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Nov 19 11:47:57 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/sh
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x199770: pcmpeqb (%esi),%xmm0
 PC (0x00199770) ok
 source "(%esi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%xmm0" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: unattended-upgrades
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
 PyString_FromFormatV ()
 PyString_FromFormat ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt_pkg.so
 _PyObject_Str ()
Title: unattended-upgrade crashed with SIGSEGV in PyString_FromFormatV()
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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #655154, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.