apt-extracttemplates crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()

[Patrick Kennedy]

The installation was just about to begin through aptitude when the crash occured whilst apt-extracttemplate was running

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apt-utils 0.9.15.4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-15.35-generic 3.13.5
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 6 23:41:52 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-05 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131227)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: apt
StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 std::__throw_out_of_range(char const*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
Title: apt-extracttemplates crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:95
 __cxxabiv1::__terminate (handler=<optimized out>) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:38
 std::terminate () at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:48
 __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=0x1b37730, tinfo=0x7f49d9d8a1d0 <typeinfo for std::out_of_range>, dest=0x7f49d9b14a50 <std::out_of_range::~out_of_range()>) at ../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:87
 std::__throw_out_of_range (__s=<optimized out>) at ../../../../../src/libstdc++-v3/src/c++11/functexcept.cc:80

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This bug has been fixed upstream in commit b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commit;h=b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690

commit b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690
Author: Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Mar 17 13:43:12 2014 +0100

    apt-inst: Do not try to create a substring of an empty string in error reporting

    One of our compressors (the empty one) has an empty extension. Calling substr
    on it fails.

diff --git a/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc b/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc
index 3803329..a63cb67 100644
--- a/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc
+++ b/apt-inst/deb/debfile.cc
@@ -124,8 +124,10 @@ bool debDebFile::ExtractTarMember(pkgDirStream &Stream,const char *Name)
    {
       std::string ext = std::string(Name) + ".{";
       for (std::vector<APT::Configuration::Compressor>::const_iterator c = compressor.begin();
- c != compressor.end(); ++c)
- ext.append(c->Extension.substr(1));
+ c != compressor.end(); ++c) {
+ if (!c->Extension.empty())
+ ext.append(c->Extension.substr(1));
+ }
       ext.append("}");
       return _error->Error(_("Internal error, could not locate member %s"), ext.c_str());
    }

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I think you want to backport this to the APT version in trusty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.9.15.4ubuntu3

---------------
apt (0.9.15.4ubuntu3) trusty; urgency=low

  * cherry pick git commit b68ce88357daf36 to fix crash in
    apt-extracttemplates (LP: #1288718)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Apr 2014 15:00:11 +0200