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crash during package update

Bug #76470 reported by Brian J. Murrell on 2006-12-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #76530: update-manager falls back to disttribution upgrade after python crashes in apt-check, due to a segfault in pkgcache::VerIterator::Downloadable. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I was doing a package update (update-manager) and during the update python crashed.

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote on 2006-12-19:

crash report Edit (6.5 MiB, text/plain)

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Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx) wrote on 2006-12-19:

This bug appears to be in apt in fact. Here is what happens when I run apt-get under gdb:

(gdb) run install linux-image-2.6.17-10-386
Starting program: /usr/bin/apt-get install linux-image-2.6.17-10-386
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
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(no debugging symbols found)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7ea1593 in pkgCache::VerIterator::Downloadable ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
(gdb) where
#0 0xb7ea1593 in pkgCache::VerIterator::Downloadable ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
#1 0xb7eb646b in pkgProblemResolver::MakeScores ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
#2 0xb7eb715a in pkgProblemResolver::Resolve ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
#3 0x0805f1b7 in ?? ()
#4 0xb7e9471b in CommandLine::DispatchArg ()
   from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.4-6.so.3.51
#5 0x0804e63b in ?? ()
#6 0xb7c1bebc in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#7 0x0804ca31 in ?? ()