aptd crashed with SIGSEGV in debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo()

[Mohd Imran Jamadar]

i was checking for updates and it went belly up.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr697
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Sep 25 21:35:17 2011
DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd
ProcEnviron:

SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f0e07577686 <_ZN13debListParser15LoadReleaseInfoERN8pkgCache15PkgFileIteratorER6FileFdSs+630>: mov %eax,(%r15)
 PC (0x7f0e07577686) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "(%r15)" (0x7f0e01553094) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
StacktraceTop:
 debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo(pkgCache::PkgFileIterator&, FileFd&, std::string) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 debPackagesIndex::Merge(pkgCacheGenerator&, OpProgress*) const () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 pkgCacheGenerator::MakeStatusCache(pkgSourceList&, OpProgress*, MMap**, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches(OpProgress*, bool) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
Title: aptd crashed with SIGSEGV in debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #854090, so it 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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