synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV

[dino99]

Precise i386, logged as gnome-classic

got this crash while resuming the packages list after asking an archives update

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: synaptic 0.75.5~exp4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.2.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 8 17:34:39 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x8096d23: add 0x38(%edx),%eax
 PC (0x08096d23) ok
 source "0x38(%edx)" (0x00000051) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%eax" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: synaptic
StacktraceTop:
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Title: synaptic crashed with SIGSEGV
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: admin audio avahi avahi-autoipd crontab debian-tor fuse haldaemon klog libuuid lpadmin messagebus mythtv plugdev polkituser pulse root ssh ssl-cert syslog users voice
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ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: synaptic 0.75.5~exp4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.2.3
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin audio avahi avahi-autoipd boinc cdrom couchdb crontab daemon debian-tor dialout disk fuse haldaemon klog kmem libuuid lpadmin mail messagebus mlocate mysql mythtv netdev ntp operator plugdev polkituser pulse root sambashare saned shadow ssh ssl-cert sudo syslog tty users utmp video voice www-data

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 RPackage::section (this=0xa1cd7a8) at rpackage.cc:112
 RPackageViewSections::addPackage (this=0x9e90f68, package=0xa1cd7a8) at rpackageview.cc:95
 RPackageView::refresh (this=0x9e90f68) at rpackageview.cc:89
 RPackageLister::openCache (this=0x9e63bc8) at rpackagelister.cc:420
 RGMainWindow::cbUpdateClicked (self=0x9e43800, data=0x9e891b0) at rgmainwindow.cc:3137

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dale Beaudoin (twocamels)]

This bug also affects me. The Quick Filter field will not allow for any characters to be typed in.

[dino99 (9d9)]

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[David (kdavid93)]

It also affects me on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 Ubuntu(Unity) 2D interface.

[Elfy (elfy)]

Similar - Xubuntu 12.04 - completely updated

[Elfy (elfy)]

2 lots fo reloading and upgrading completed without issue.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #932432, so it 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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