aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x09172fe8 ***

[Sebastien Vajda]

Binary package hint: aptitude

I was just running an aptitude full-upgrade in a terminal.
It has already downloaded & extracted the new packages, it crashed while doing this:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-16-generic

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x09172fe8 ***
Date: Tue Mar 9 08:19:37 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcCmdline: aptitude full-upgrade
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-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): 0x09172fe8 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
UserGroups: pkcs11

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