aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV when forgetting new packages

[Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker]

Binary package hint: aptitude

At the main aptitude screen I hit "f" to forget which packages were new, and aptitude crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 21 08:27:45 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
Package: aptitude 0.4.9-2ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: aptitude -u
ProcCwd: /home/ilmari
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LC_TIME=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
Title: aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux vesla 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x80fb4a4 <_ZN22pkg_description_widget11set_packageERKN8pkgCache11PkgIteratorERKNS0_11VerIteratorE+100>: mov %esp,%eax
 PC (0x080fb4a4) ok
 source "%esp" ok
 destination "%eax" ok
 SP (0xbfdd59f0) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
SegvReason: Reason could not be automatically determined.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
?? ()

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm this.

[Matteo Settenvini (tchernobog)]

Seconding. Unfortunately the stacktrace doesn't say much as it is; so I did a session and generated a full backtrace. This is the result, but I don't know if it's enough. If it isn't, please tell me and I'll try and get something better -- maybe setting a breakpoint on do_forget_new ().

[brentpieczynski (brentpieczynski)]

After a fix release for Firefox was installed, I finished reporting a bug for it. This act of having reporting a bug which was caused by patching another bug, does seem to be the cause of this present-bug.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version has died long ago; no more supported