Comment 0 for bug 191094

Kubuntu 7.10; KDE 3;
aptitude 0.4.6.1 compiled at Sep 15 2007 09:17:56
Compiler: g++ 4.1.3 20070831 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu1)

NCurses version: 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.17

aptitude craches when attempting to update repository package lists.

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Here's the error and backtrace:

~$ sudo aptitude update
Ign cdrom://Kubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016.1) gutsy/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://Kubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016.1) gutsy/restricted Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy/free Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy Release
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy/free Packages
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy/non-free Packages
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy/free Packages
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org gutsy/non-free Packages
Get:2 http://archive.canonical.com gutsy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com gutsy Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Packages
Hit http://archive.canonical.com gutsy/partner Sources
99% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com] [Connecting to security.ubuntu.com] 1603B/s 0s*** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x082f6e38 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7c70d65]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb7c74800]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0xb7e38d81]
aptitude[0x820ec46]
aptitude[0x820cf0e]
aptitude[0x815651b]
aptitude[0x81543fb]
aptitude[0x8053f69]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0)[0xb7c1d050]
aptitude[0x80523d1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-082e9000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1226469 /usr/bin/aptitude
082e9000-082eb000 rw-p 002a0000 08:02 1226469 /usr/bin/aptitude
082eb000-08351000 rw-p 082eb000 00:00 0 [heap]
b7900000-b7921000 rw-p b7900000 00:00 0
b7921000-b7a00000 ---p b7921000 00:00 0
b7adc000-b7add000 rw-p b7adc000 00:00 0
b7add000-b7b1c000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308633 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE
b7b1c000-b7b1d000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308638 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_NUMERIC
b7b1d000-b7bfd000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308632 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_COLLATE
b7bfd000-b7bfe000 rw-p b7bfd000 00:00 0
b7bfe000-b7c00000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586196 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.6.1.so
b7c00000-b7c02000 rw-p 00001000 08:02 1586196 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.6.1.so
b7c02000-b7c04000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586283 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.6.1.so
b7c04000-b7c06000 rw-p 00001000 08:02 1586283 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.6.1.so
b7c06000-b7c07000 rw-p b7c06000 00:00 0
b7c07000-b7d4b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586171 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.6.1.so
b7d4b000-b7d4c000 r--p 00143000 08:02 1586171 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.6.1.so
b7d4c000-b7d4e000 rw-p 00144000 08:02 1586171 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.6.1.so
b7d4e000-b7d51000 rw-p b7d4e000 00:00 0
b7d51000-b7d5b000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586211 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7d5b000-b7d5c000 rw-p 0000a000 08:02 1586211 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7d5c000-b7d7f000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586203 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.6.1.so
b7d7f000-b7d81000 rw-p 00023000 08:02 1586203 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.6.1.so
b7d81000-b7e69000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1228908 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.9
b7e69000-b7e6c000 r--p 000e8000 08:02 1228908 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.9
b7e6c000-b7e6e000 rw-p 000eb000 08:02 1228908 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.9
b7e6e000-b7e74000 rw-p b7e6e000 00:00 0
b7e74000-b7e88000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586256 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.6.1.so
b7e88000-b7e8a000 rw-p 00013000 08:02 1586256 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.6.1.so
b7e8a000-b7e8c000 rw-p b7e8a000 00:00 0
b7e8c000-b7e91000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1228881 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
b7e91000-b7e92000 rw-p 00004000 08:02 1228881 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
b7e92000-b7e93000 rw-p b7e92000 00:00 0
b7e93000-b7eda000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586225 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.6
b7eda000-b7ee2000 rw-p 00046000 08:02 1586225 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.6
b7ee2000-b7fae000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1228107 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5.0
b7fae000-b7fb1000 rw-p 000cb000 08:02 1228107 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6.so.4.5.0
b7fb1000-b7fb2000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308641 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_TIME
b7fb2000-b7fb3000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308636 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MONETARY
b7fb3000-b7fb4000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308642 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
b7fb4000-b7fb5000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308639 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_PAPER
b7fb5000-b7fb6000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308637 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_NAME
b7fb6000-b7fb7000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308631 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_ADDRESS
b7fb7000-b7fb8000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308640 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE
b7fb8000-b7fb9000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308635 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT
b7fb9000-b7fc0000 r--s 00000000 08:02 1226531 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
b7fc0000-b7fc1000 r--p 00000000 08:02 1308634 /usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION
b7fc1000-b7fc3000 rw-p b7fc1000 00:00 0
b7fc3000-b7fdd000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1586212 Aborted (core dumped)
:~$
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Error does not appear for apt-get, only aptitude.

Xavier