apt-check crashed with signal 7 in debPackagesIndex::FindInCache()

[doojsdad]

Binary package hint: update-notifier

First time it's happened since installing ibex. Seems like an isolated incident. I'm not a developer so I thought I'd let someone else know.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-notifier 0.71.1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 7
SourcePackage: update-notifier
StacktraceTop:
 debPackagesIndex::FindInCache ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.8-6.so.4.6
 pkgMakeStatusCache ()
 pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches ()
 pkgCacheFile::Open ()
Title: apt-check crashed with signal 7 in debPackagesIndex::FindInCache()
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:debPackagesIndex::FindInCache (this=0x9a92d78, Cache=@0xbf8679ac)
CheckValidity (CacheFile=<value optimized out>, Start={_M_current = 0x9aa27c0}, End=
pkgMakeStatusCache (List=@0xbf867be0, Progress=@0xbf867c5c, OutMap=0x9a93128, AllowMem=true)
pkgCacheFile::BuildCaches (this=0x9a93128, Progress=@0xbf867c5c, WithLock=true) at cachefile.cc:68
pkgCacheFile::Open (this=0x9a93128, Progress=@0xbf867c5c, WithLock=<value optimized out>)

[Γουργιώτης Γιώργος (aka Gourgi) (gourgi)]

i use intrepid alpha 6
i had also this problem today after running
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade from terminal

[kulight (kulight)]

just happen to me never happen before

[Son (son.caokim)]

on jaunty, updated earlier today (1009-02-19)

[Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren (ripps818)]

Just happened to me a few minutes ago.

[bobya (bobya)]

Count me in for this error

[Eric Hickman (enhickman)]

just happened on karmic with an doing my daily upgrade check. i don't believe it interrupted any thing

[Mörgæs (moergaes)]

Closing due to age. No activity since 10.04.

If a similar bug appears in Ubuntu 14.04 please open a new report.