aptitude crashed during update

[Søren Bredlund Caspersen]

Binary package hint: aptitude

I was doing this on my 10.04 system:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

which resulted in:

<cut lots of hits>
Hit http://ftp.acc.umu.se lucid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ftp.acc.umu.se lucid-security/multiverse Sources
*** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0a0411e8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0x6b611)[0x7f5611]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(+0x6ce68)[0x7f6e68]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0x7f9f2d]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0x429731]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdaPv+0x1d)[0x42978d]
aptitude[0x81693bf]
aptitude[0x81872dd]
aptitude[0x818490e]
aptitude[0x81492a0]
aptitude[0x8144ea1]
aptitude[0x805efce]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0x7a0bd6]
aptitude[0x805c6a1]
======= Memory map: ========
00113000-00153000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3932249 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
00153000-00155000 r--p 00040000 08:13 3932249 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
00155000-00156000 rw-p 00042000 08:13 3932249 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.7
00156000-0020f000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1051587 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
0020f000-00210000 ---p 000b9000 08:13 1051587 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
00210000-00213000 r--p 000b9000 08:13 1051587 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
00213000-00214000 rw-p 000bc000 08:13 1051587 /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3.0.0
00214000-00283000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1051654 /usr/lib/libept.so.0.5.30
00283000-00284000 r--p 0006f000 08:13 1051654 /usr/lib/libept.so.0.5.30
00284000-00285000 rw-p 00070000 08:13 1051654 /usr/lib/libept.so.0.5.30
00285000-0029a000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936653 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so
0029a000-0029b000 r--p 00014000 08:13 3936653 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so
0029b000-0029c000 rw-p 00015000 08:13 3936653 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread-2.11.1.so
0029c000-0029e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
0029e000-002a4000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936640 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.11.1.so
002a4000-002a5000 r--p 00006000 08:13 3936640 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.11.1.so
002a5000-002a6000 rw-p 00007000 08:13 3936640 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.11.1.so
002a6000-0036b000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1051458 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8.0
0036b000-0036d000 r--p 000c5000 08:13 1051458 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8.0
0036d000-0036e000 rw-p 000c7000 08:13 1051458 /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.10-6.so.4.8.0
0036e000-00457000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1052291 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
00457000-0045b000 r--p 000e9000 08:13 1052291 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
0045b000-0045c000 rw-p 000ed000 08:13 1052291 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13
0045c000-00463000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
00463000-0046b000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936648 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.11.1.so
0046b000-0046c000 r--p 00007000 08:13 3936648 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.11.1.so
0046c000-0046d000 rw-p 00008000 08:13 3936648 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.11.1.so
0046d000-00477000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936644 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.11.1.so
00477000-00478000 r--p 00009000 08:13 3936644 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.11.1.so
00478000-00479000 rw-p 0000a000 08:13 3936644 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.11.1.so
004f0000-0050c000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3932244 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0050c000-0050d000 r--p 0001b000 08:13 3932244 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0050d000-0050e000 rw-p 0001c000 08:13 3932244 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
0057e000-00599000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3932186 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
00599000-0059a000 r--p 0001a000 08:13 3932186 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
0059a000-0059b000 rw-p 0001b000 08:13 3932186 /lib/ld-2.11.1.so
0063e000-00786000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1052381 /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15.6.9
00786000-00789000 r--p 00147000 08:13 1052381 /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15.6.9
00789000-0078a000 rw-p 0014a000 08:13 1052381 /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15.6.9
0078a000-008d7000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936627 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
008d7000-008d8000 ---p 0014d000 08:13 3936627 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
008d8000-008da000 r--p 0014d000 08:13 3936627 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
008da000-008db000 rw-p 0014f000 08:13 3936627 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.11.1.so
008db000-008de000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
008f7000-008f9000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936661 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.11.1.so
008f9000-008fa000 r--p 00001000 08:13 3936661 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.11.1.so
008fa000-008fb000 rw-p 00002000 08:13 3936661 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil-2.11.1.so
00942000-00955000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936638 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.11.1.so
00955000-00956000 r--p 00012000 08:13 3936638 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.11.1.so
00956000-00957000 rw-p 00013000 08:13 3936638 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.11.1.so
00957000-00959000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
009b5000-009ba000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1052253 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
009ba000-009bb000 r--p 00004000 08:13 1052253 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
009bb000-009bc000 rw-p 00005000 08:13 1052253 /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0
00ab2000-00ad6000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936635 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so
00ad6000-00ad7000 r--p 00023000 08:13 3936635 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so
00ad7000-00ad8000 rw-p 00024000 08:13 3936635 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.11.1.so
00c88000-00c89000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
00df6000-00e09000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3932361 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
00e09000-00e0a000 r--p 00012000 08:13 3932361 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
00e0a000-00e0b000 rw-p 00013000 08:13 3932361 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
00f2f000-00f31000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 3936633 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so
00f31000-00f32000 r--p 00001000 08:13 3936633 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so
00f32000-00f33000 rw-p 00002000 08:13 3936633 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.11.1.so
08048000-08251000 r-xp 00000000 08:13 1048626 /usr/bin/aptitude
08251000-08252000 r--p 00208000 08:13 1048626 /usr/bin/aptitude
08252000-08253000 rw-p 00209000 08:13 1048626 /usr/bin/aptitude
08253000-08255000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
09e76000-0a0a0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap]
b5900000-b5921000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b5921000-b5a00000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
b5a08000-b5a09000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
b5a09000-b62f2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b63d4000-b69ce000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b69ce000-b76b2000 rw-p 00000000 08:13 524407 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
b76b2000-b76f1000 r--p 00000000 08:13 1049339 /usr/lib/locale/en_DK.utf8/LC_CTYPE
b76f1000-b76f2000 r--p 00000000 08:13 1050271 /usr/lib/locale/en_DK.utf8/LC_NUMERIC
b76f2000-b76f3000 r--p 00000000 08:13 1050272 /usr/lib/locale/en_DK.utf8/LC_TIME
b76f3000-b7811000 r--p 00000000 08:13 1049340 /usr/lib/locale/en_DK.utf8/LC_COLLATE
b7811000-b7816000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
b7816000-b7817000 r--p 00000000 08:13 1050273 /usr/lib/locale/en_DK.utf8/LC_MONETARY^[[B^[[AAborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 11 10:33:01 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100304)
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.24-generic
SourcePackage: aptitude
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686