software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo()

[James Plate]

Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

software-center:
  Installed: 5.1.12
  Candidate: 5.1.12
  Version table:
 *** 5.1.12 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Mar 11 08:18:29 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120309)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f8c36d4a029 <_ZN13debListParser15LoadReleaseInfoERN8pkgCache15PkgFileIteratorER6FileFdSs+89>: mov %eax,0xc(%rbx)
 PC (0x7f8c36d4a029) ok
 source "%eax" ok
 destination "0xc(%rbx)" (0x7f8bd7a31554) in non-writable VMA region: 0x7f8bd54d1000-0x7f8bd8000000 ---p None
SegvReason: writing VMA None
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: software-center
StacktraceTop:
 debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo(pkgCache::PkgFileIterator&, FileFd&, std::string) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 debPackagesIndex::Merge(pkgCacheGenerator&, OpProgress*) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 pkgCacheGenerator::MakeStatusCache(pkgSourceList&, OpProgress*, MMap**, bool) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches(OpProgress*, bool) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
Title: software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in debListParser::LoadReleaseInfo()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-11 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #860602, 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.