software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in debListParser::UsePackage()

[Felix Kuehling]

The backtrace points to libapt-pkg. This may be a duplicate of bug#854138. I'm still reporting this separately because bug#854138 doesn't seem to include all the info collected by apport.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Oct 6 18:17:24 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f023bc7be26 <_ZN13debListParser10UsePackageERN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorERNS0_11VerIteratorE+278>: repz cmpsb %es:(%rdi),%ds:(%rsi)
 PC (0x7f023bc7be26) ok
 source "%es:(%rdi)" (0x7f023bca703d) ok
 destination "%ds:(%rsi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 debListParser::UsePackage(pkgCache::PkgIterator&, pkgCache::VerIterator&) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList(pkgCacheGenerator::ListParser&, pkgCache::VerIterator*) () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11
 debTranslationsIndex::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
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in debListParser::UsePackage()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 debListParser::UsePackage (this=0x7ffff59caa10, Pkg=..., Ver=...) at deb/deblistparser.cc:249
 pkgCacheGenerator::MergeList (this=0x7ffff59cb580, List=..., OutVer=0x0) at pkgcachegen.cc:207
 debTranslationsIndex::Merge (this=<optimized out>, Gen=..., Prog=0x7ffff59cb990) at deb/debindexfile.cc:528
 BuildCache (Gen=..., Progress=0x7ffff59cb990, CurrentSize=@0x7ffff59cb8b0, TotalSize=83406442, Start=..., End=...) at pkgcachegen.cc:1067
 pkgCacheGenerator::MakeStatusCache (List=<optimized out>, Progress=0x7ffff59cb990, OutMap=0x39c6940, AllowMem=248) at pkgcachegen.cc:1261

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is outdated; and that issue is not met with more recent package