aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08cc9d00 ***

[Aron Griffis]

Binary package hint: aptitude

$ apt-cache policy aptitude
aptitude:
  Installed: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
  Candidate: 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9 0
        500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

crashed during aptitude update

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08cc9d00 ***
Date: Sun Feb 28 17:12:11 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcCmdline: aptitude update
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08cc9d00 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
UserGroups:

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #515525, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.