aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x087970f0 ***

[Sebastien Vajda]

Binary package hint: aptitude

standard "sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude full-upgrade". Crashed right after displaying "Processing triggers for python-support ...". Seems to have performed all tasks successfully, I guess it crashes in some clean-up activities.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x087970f0 ***
Date: Sat Apr 3 12:57:57 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
ProcCmdline: aptitude full-upgrade
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
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): 0x087970f0 ***
UserGroups: pkcs11

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