aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0881cb00 ***

[André Gondim]

Binary package hint: aptitude

I saw this bug report when I made

sudo aptitude update

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0881cb00 ***
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Mar 9 17:08:05 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcCmdline: aptitude update
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=pt_BR.utf8
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:pt_PT
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.24-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): 0x0881cb00 ***
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Henrik (neu242)]

Workaround: Run aptitude with -q