aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in debReleaseIndex::~debReleaseIndex()

Bug #522928 reported by vmc
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This bug affects 19 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptitude (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: aptitude

This happened twice today.
Using this command set, that I have been using for over a year and two releases:
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

Last few lines jsut before crash dump:
Setting up libdevmapper1.02.1 (2:1.02.39-1ubuntu1) ...

Setting up dmsetup (2:1.02.39-1ubuntu1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Setting up foomatic-db (20100216-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up openprinting-ppds (20100216-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-13-generic
line 1: 1769 Segmentation fault (core dumped) sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Feb 16 15:37:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100214)
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined (enforce)
ProcCmdline: aptitude safe-upgrade
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 debReleaseIndex::~debReleaseIndex() ()
 pkgSourceList::~pkgSourceList() ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in debReleaseIndex::~debReleaseIndex()
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic i686
UserGroups:
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xd9677b <_ZN15debReleaseIndexD0Ev+139>: call *0x34(%edx)
 PC (0x00d9677b) ok
 source "*0x34(%edx)" ok
 destination "(%esp)" (0xbff83a10) ok
 SP (0xbff83a10) ok
 Reason could not be automatically determined.
SegvReason: Reason could not be automatically determined.

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vmc (vmclark) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 ~debReleaseIndex (this=0x8531768)
 ~pkgSourceList (this=0x852e5b8) at sourcelist.cc:139
 apt_close_cache () at apt.cc:349
 download_install_manager::finish (this=0xbff83dcc,
 cmdline_do_download (m=0xbff83dcc, verbose=0)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt
Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-i386-retrace
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vmc (vmclark) wrote :

Today mark at least the 6th time Aptitude has crashed. I would label it as completely undependable.

visibility: private → public
IKT (ikt)
Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman) wrote :

I had Ubuntu Software Center open when this happened to me.
Ubuntu Software Center showed some cache rebuilding window just before aptitude crashed.

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Eyad Salah (eyad-salah) wrote :

I was running the same command (update && safe-upgrade) on lucid AMD64 when I got this

Kees Cook (kees)
description: updated
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This version has expired long ago; no more supported

Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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