aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV

[Paul Wagland]

Binary package hint: aptitude

I see quite a few other instances of aptitude crashing, however, for me, aptitude has only just started crashing, whereas these other reports are all much older.

This seems to happen most often when I do an update, and then press 'U' to upgrade all packages.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Jan 21 08:04:47 2008
Disassembly: 0x7ff9b8c29b6e:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon nvidia
Package: aptitude 0.4.9-2ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: aptitude
ProcCwd: /usr/lib/vmware
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: aptitude
Stacktrace: #0 0x00007ff9b8c29b6e in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux paul 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 10 22:48:22 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: Domain Admins

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? ()

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi there
Thanks for your bug report, unfortunately the retrace service has failed, so could you please try to obtain a backtrace manually following the steps described at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

by the way, could you reproduce this issue with a new account?

Thanks in advance

[Juraj Lukac (hrasko)]

Hi,
I'm also experiencing crashing of aptitude. It happens after the new packages are installed. This is how it looks like:

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Setting up gnome-settings-daemon (2.21.90.2-0ubuntu2) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Press return to continue.

Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying..

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
root@desktop:~#

After this crash also gnome-terminal crash report activates (the crash report window appears), but the gnome-terminal is still running.

I think this is the same bug as reported in bug #179874 and #183717.

Juraj

[Juraj Lukac (hrasko)]

I thought the report file would be uploaded automatically, but it't not attached here, so just a brief info:
I'm running on Ubuntu 8.04, architecture i686.

Juraj

[Juraj Lukac (hrasko)]

I have found yet that aptitude only chrashes when upgrading packages, but not when installing new ones.

Juraj