apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string()

[Omid Mottaghi]

apt 0.8.16

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 27 10:54:03 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-get
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: apt-get upgrade
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x28b625 <_ZNSsC2ERKSs+21>: mov -0x4(%eax),%edx
 PC (0x0028b625) ok
 source "-0x4(%eax)" (0xfffffffc) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: apt
StacktraceTop:
 std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string(std::string const&) () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
 pkgPolicy::CreatePin(pkgVersionMatch::MatchType, std::string, std::string, short) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 ?? ()
Title: apt-get crashed with SIGSEGV in std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-04 (23 days ago)
UserGroups:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

Hi, thanks for reporting the bug.

This seems like a broken libstdc++ or broken hardware.

I am closing it, so we can focus on more recent bugs.