synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgRecords::Lookup()

[pablomme]

I got the above segfault in Synaptic while trying to select all packages in "Not Installed (Residual Config)" with Ctrl+A. This is in up-to-date raring. The application didn't close, and I received multiple prompts to report a bug, the first couple of which crashed too, so this may not be the first error triggered by that action.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: synaptic 0.80~exp1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.2-generic 3.8.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 11 09:34:49 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-13 (28 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20121213)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f0cc354c534 <_ZN10pkgRecords6LookupERKN8pkgCache15VerFileIteratorE+20>: mov (%rax),%eax
 PC (0x7f0cc354c534) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x7f12fa138000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
 pkgRecords::Lookup(pkgCache::VerFileIterator const&) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgRecords::Lookup()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Ok, namely the problem was with selecting libtelepathy-logger2 among the packages. libtelepathy-logger2 has no "Installed version", "Available version", etc, in the listing. This package was just replaced, if I remember correctly, by libtelepathy-logger3 in an update (with lt-l2 remaining installed), but beyond that I don't know what about this package should cause synaptic to misbehave.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

apt-get remove --purge libtelepathy-logger2 removed the package correctly. Still, synaptic shouldn't have crashed when trying to perform the same operation.

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

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 #1097532, 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.